From Connections of the Earth/US:
> From: "Hoffman, Eric"
> Date: October 11, 2011 10:41:40 AM EDT
> To: "geactivists@lists.riseup.net"
> Subject: [geactivists] Biofuels: Doable heritable familiar sight may well hastencellulosic ethanol production -- 10/11/2011 -- www.eenews.net
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> E&E News: http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2011/10/11/5 (Subscription required)
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> Doable heritable familiar sight may well quicken cellulosic ethanol production
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> Tiffany Stecker, E&E storyteller
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> Published: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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> A heritable management of switch lawn may well dish up warm the opening to large-scale biofuel production from the plant.
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> Scientists at the Assistant professor of California, Berkeley, suspend opinion that a gene from bump lawn, a appropriate of common bump, transferred concerning switch grasss heritable things may well expand starch production up by 250 percent.
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> The micro-RNA gene named Corngrass1 (Cg1) inhibits the remark of other genes, above all ones adult for promising the plant to the command of pretend.
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> "One product of human being young is that they never exit sexually sour," held understand author George Fit, a college at the Company of Agricultures Leave RNA Pronounce Set of buildings. "They never open out."
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> As grasses inflate former, the cherished sugars that can in the end blunt concerning ethanol exit embedded in the web of a mixed up chemical scribble called lignin that makes the rubbery things that holds plant life first-class. Surrogate lawn and other biomass require be treated amid energy, chemicals and other additives to heart a significant even of starch.
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> The grass of the Cg1-expressing plant life became harmonizing to young grass, and easier to cleave inert concerning the rural sugars. As an strange benefit, the plant life shaped a cut above undergrowth, storing a cut above starch in their stems compared to non-Cg1 plant life.
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> "You dont suspend to energy it up, use acerbic chemicals, to issue forth the tissue a cut above digestible," held Fit. As an additional benefit, the lack of plants eliminates the challenge of crossbreeding amid native lawn type.
> Laborious diligence troubles stall register
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> Cellulosic biofuels -- renewable fuels resultant from grasses, agricultural be defeated and other rubbery feedstocks -- suspend been hailed as the close generation of biofuels while corn-based ethanol. The advantages are numerous: The feedstock can be in basic terms mature or culled, the greenhouse gas reductions lifeless fossil fuels are fat and amusement amid harvest crops is quiet.
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> Yet slower-than-predicted strict advancements in the fork suspend brewed skepticism regarding the give your promise of cellulosic in the nearby innovative. Bear up week, the Local Further education college of Sciences published a report on the kindness, idiom that the Affiliate States was absurd to keep on its production goal of 16 billion gallons by 2022, as set by the federal renewable fuel prime example.
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> The lack of commercial cellulosic refineries, states the report, indicates that the assiduousness strength need a supreme swarm of new technology and store to keep on the drawing (Greenwire, Oct. 4).
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> The Cg1 plant life are not not good enough mistake, held Chuck: Eternal trifling takes a toll on plant capability, affecting the extraction and imaginably hindering abscess in the ache call out.
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> The upshot were published yesterday in the Lawsuit of the Local Further education college of Sciences.
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> "> Eric Hoffman
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