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Sustainability :: Green Innovation of the Month

July 7, 2008

Producing Biomass Enzymes in Crops

Michelle Bryner

A group of scientists at Texas A&M (College Station, TX) have developed an economically viable process to produce cellulase—the enzyme used to breakdown biomass for biofuel production—in corn crops. The new process produces several value-added...

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