Skip the Antibiotics When Making Biofuels (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Skip the Antibiotics When Making Biofuels (2 of 3)

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Corn mash (where corn has been ground, cooked, and treated with the enzyme amylase) is one of the lowest cost carbohydrate feedstocks, and used to produce over 50 billion liters per year of ethanol in the United States. However, solid particles present in the mash insulate contaminants from heat or other sterilization processes, making non-sterile fermentation required. ROBUST enables this and similar low-cost feedstocks to be utilized for advanced biofuel and biochemical production. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 5, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.J. Shaw at institution in location, and colleagues was titled, 'Metabolic engineering of microbial competitive advantage for industrial fermentation processes.'

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