New Commercially Viable Processing Technologies for the Production of Sugar Feedstocks from Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) for Manufacture of Biofuels and Bioproducts

Sugar Tech

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 232-249

  Eggleston, Gillian ^a   Cole, Marsha ^a   Andrzejewski, Brett ^a  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Bioproducts; Clarification; Processing; Storage; Sweet sorghum

Indexed keywords

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 84881025434     PISSN: 09721525     EISSN: 09740740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12355-013-0229-6     Document Type: Review

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