Researchers find “zip-lignin” native to multiple plant species; potential for new approaches to degrading lignin for biorefineries
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2016
In 2014, researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues successfully engineered poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. Earlier post.). —Steve Karlen, UW–Madison and the paper’s lead author.
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