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Versatile, resilient, and high yielding, sorghum has been giving us good ideas for millennia. People in northern Africa first domesticated this flowering grass some 8,000 years ago for a steady...
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February 06, 2012
As they explore how to degrade plant biomass into simpler sugars or coax crops into growing more biomass per acre, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) are...
February 02, 2012
Just as people need to chew food to better access and digest the nutrients inside, mechanical and chemical pretreatment of plants disrupts the cell walls and allows access to the...
September 01, 2011
In August, President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million over the next three years to produce biofuels...
August 31, 2011
Creating biofuels from region-specific biomass could make a huge dent in fossil fuel use for transportation. But moving lightweight, bulky biomass from farms to factories could leave a large carbon...
August 21, 2011
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Pretreating non-edible biomass – corn leaves, stalks or switch grass – holds the keys for unlocking its energy potential and making it economically viable, according to...
August 09, 2011
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Farmers and policymakers should wait before converting Conservation Reserve Program land to corn and soybean production, according to a Michigan State University study.
The study, which...
July 27, 2011
Bruce Dale
Bruce Dale, Leader of GLBRC's Deconstruction Research Area, talks about biomass pretreatment, and its role in the biofuels pipeline.
July 25, 2011
MADISON - For thousands of years, bakers and brewers have relied on yeast to convert sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Yet, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers eager to harness this...
July 19, 2011
Doug Landis
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) project area leader Doug Landis explains some of the factors of determining sustainability of a biofuels crop....
July 06, 2011
David Rothamer
GLBRC engine researcher David Rothamer explains the differences between cellulosic ethanol and corn ethanol.
July 06, 2011
David Rothamer
GLBRC engine researcher David Rothamer explains what ethanol is and why it's a good fuel.
July 06, 2011
David Rothamer
GLBRC engine researcher David Rothamer explains what ethanol is and why it's a good fuel.