Corn harvest strategies for combined starch and cellulosic bioprocessing to ethanol

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 844-850

  Gao, Juan ^a   Qian, Leilei ^a   Thelen, Kurt D ^a   Hao, Xinmei ^a   Sousa, Leonardo da Costa ^b   Lau, Ming Woei ^b   Balan, Vankatesh ^b   Dale, Bruce E ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

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EID: 79957581347     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2010.0445     Document Type: Article

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