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Contact: John Verkade
jverkade@iastate.edu
515-294-5023
Iowa State University
Caption: John Verkade, left, a University Professor of chemistry at Iowa State, and Reed Oshel, a graduate student in biorenewable resources and technology, are studying a chemical compound that breaks down plant fiber. That's something that could be very useful to the ethanol industry.
Credit: Photo by Bob Elbert/Iowa State University
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