Current technologies for fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic plant biomass

Genetic Improvement of Bioenergy Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-182

  Lu, Yulin ^a   Mosier, Nathan S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-70805-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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