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Helping Yeast To Survive Industrial Toxins Could Boost Biofuel Production

MIT team engineers yeast to be more tolerant to toxic byproducts, boosting biofuels production; "tolerance module"


MIT team engineers yeast to be more tolerant to toxic byproducts, boosting biofuels production; “tolerance module”
In the US, ethanol production is limited in large part by its reliance on corn, which isn’t grown in large enough quantities to make up a significant portion of US fuel needs. To try to expand biofuels’ potential impact, a team of MIT engineers has now found a way to expand the use of a wider range of nonfood feedstocks to produce such fuels.
At the moment, cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as straw and woody plants are difficult to use for biofuel production because they first need to be broken down to fermentable sugars, a process that releases numerous byproducts that are toxic to yeast, the microbes most commonly used to produce biofuels. ....

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