Powerful enzymes create ethanol from agricultural harvest waste

Researchers in Finland and colleagues have developed powerful enzymes, which accelerate plant biomass conversion into sugars and further into products such as bioethanol. The project's results include lignin-tolerant enzymes and enzyme cocktails for processing spruce, straw, corn cob and wheat bran. The commercialization of these enzymes has now begun in the Netherlands.

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