BP's engineered yeast brews up cellulosic ethanol breakthrough

BusinessGreen.com
By Danny Bradbury
30 Dec 2010

BP-backed research project promises to commercialise new biofuel production technique "very soon"

A BP-backed research project has produced a variety of yeast designed to process cellulosic material into ethanol more effectively than before.

Researchers at the University of Illinois, in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Seoul National University, and the University of California, have engineered a yeast strain that can process two types of sugar at once.

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