In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

Cellulose, which helps give plant cell walls their rigid structure, holds promise as a renewable raw material for biofuels—if researchers can accelerate the production process.

just like it is crucial to mill sugarcane to get the juice that will be fermented and converted into ethanol. But the good news is that the substance – called "cellulose oxidative cleaving enzym ...

have discovered a biocatalyst called CelOCE (Cellulose Oxidative Cleaving Enzyme) stemming from a soil bacteria, which can transform waste into biofuel. The enzyme, isolated from bacteria found in ...

Verenium has been running a demonstration plant in Louisiana that can produce 1.4 million gallons of ethanol annually. The Verenium process relies on enzymes to break down the cellulose ...

First-generation biofuels, primarily consisting of ethanol ... of heat and/or acid treatments to separate the lignin from the cellulose and hemicellulose; one of the most common techniques ...

Codexis and Shell are expanding their collaboration on developing non-food based biofuels. Codexis develops what the company calls biocatalysts, the enzymes used to break down cellulose into ...

Which plants are good resources for biofuel production? The first attempts to produce a biologically-based fuel to replace mineral petrol and diesel, continued to look for derivatives of well ...

The process offers an advantage over making biofuels from corn or cellulose, because growing those materials requires large amounts of arable land. It’s also an improvement over using ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers ...