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Water Gunks Up Biofuels Production from Bio-Oils
New findings will help extend the lifetime of catalysts used to process bio-oils in liquid systems.
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How Does Your Garden Grow? Study Identifies Instigators of Plant Growth
Identifying enzyme instigators will speed the ability to manipulate plant cell wall structures for renewable feedstocks.
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Work Together or Go It Alone? Microbes Are Split on the Answer
Microbes often evolve and work together to thrive in no oxygen situations, hinting at how carbon and energy flow just below soils and sediments.
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Stimulate Bacteria to Stop Chromium in Groundwater
Findings could aid contaminant management efforts at former weapons production and industrial processing sites.
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Elevated Carbon Dioxide Suppresses Dominant Plant Species in a Mixed-Grass...
Community composition is vital to managing native grasslands amid climate and precipitation variations.
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New Methods for Investigating Wood Formation
Genetic approaches will aid development of higher biomass-yielding, sustainable trees for bioenergy feedstocks.
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Characterization of Poplar Budbreak Gene Enhances Understanding of Spring...
“Master regulator” gene will facilitate management and breeding of trees better adapted to changing environments.
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Closing the Loop: Ionic Liquids from Biomass Waste Could Pretreat Plants...
Recycling waste from biofuel production could lower cost for future biorefineries.
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Engineering E. coli for Biofuel, Bioproduct Production
A novel E. coli fatty acid biosynthesis system could more efficiently convert biomass to desired products.
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Loosen Up Cell Walls and Get the Sugars Out
Better understanding could lead to more cost-effective production of cellulosic biofuels.
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New Technique Shows Protein Changes in Intact Microbial Communities
Mass spectrometry and high-performance computing combined, allowing scientists to study proteins that link internal processes to community attributes.
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Modeling Choices and the Effects of Water Runoff on Plant Productivity
Understanding differences in modeling soil water will help scientists simulate how this moisture affects the climate.
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New Radars for Estimating Rainfall Installed at ARM Sites
Data derived from these instruments will support climate model simulations of cloud processes.
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Most Complete Functional Map of an Entire Enzyme Family
Researchers develop a new process for annotating cellulose-degrading enzymes.
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Biofuel Tech Straight from the Farm
Herbivore digestion involves a large variety of enzymes that break woody plants into biofuel building blocks.
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Diverse Fungi Secrete Similar Suite of Decomposition Enzymes
Analyses reveal diversity in carbon turnover and other degradation processes, offering insights for biofuel production.
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Scientists Rewrite Bacteria’s Genetic Code
New code allows bacteria to thrive in the lab and offers seven “slots” to program in designer proteins for industry.
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Natural Chemicals Transform Man-Made Particulates
Competition between two natural chemicals to coat and change atmospheric particles from fossil fuel combustion could improve accuracy of climate and air quality simulations.
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Climate Study Finds Human Fingerprint in Northern Hemisphere
New analysis uses detection and attribution methods to establish multiyear trends of vegetation growth in northern-extratropical latitudes.
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Microbial Activity in the Subsurface Contributes to Greenhouse Gas Fluxes
Natural carbon dioxide production from deep subsurface soils contributes significantly to emissions, even in a semiarid floodplain.
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