Dutch researchers make breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 13:21
in Earth & Climate
With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ethanol, less acetate and elimination of the major by-product glycerol' This week the invention was published in the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.