Nature World: A massive quantity of surplus straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is produced each year with little to use it for. Now, researchers suggest that this straw can be converted into second-generation biofuel, making harvests from golden fields even more useful.
A study published in Bioresource Technology, details how researchers at the Biorefinery Centre on the Norwich Research Park found that energy sources in tough straw can be exposed using a sort of "pressure cooking"...