Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Glyndwr University (Wales) and Partners Study New Ryegrass For Potential Biofuels Production

Biofuels Journal

Date Posted: April 27, 2011




Experts from Glyndŵr University will investigate how sugars from new forms of ryegrass can be chemically modified to produce additives which could be used as a thickening or gelling agent in a range of products in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.




They will work with scientists from Aberystwyth University and Bangor University in a pan-Wales research project which has been awarded more than £450,000 in funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s Integrated Bio-refining Research and Technology Club (IBTI).



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