Plant production of chemical building blocks

The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 131-145

  Koops, Andries Jurriaan ^a   Brumbley, Steven ^b   Poirier, Yves ^c   De Laat, Ad ^c   Scott, Elinor ^c   Sanders, J P M ^c   Van Der Meer, Ingrid M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849774802     Document Type: Chapter

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