Glucanocellulosic ethanol: The undiscovered biofuel potential in energy crops and marine biomass

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Falter, Christian ^a   Zwikowics, Claudia ^a   Eggert, Dennis ^b,c   Blümke, Antje ^a   Naumann, Marcel ^a   Wolff, Kerstin ^a   Ellinger, Dorothea ^a   Reimer, Rudolph ^b   Voigt, Christian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MATTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA GLUCAN; BIOFUEL; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE;

BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HORDEUM; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; WHEAT;

BETA-GLUCANS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; ETHANOL; HORDEUM; LIGNIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84940644593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13722     Document Type: Article

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