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Scientists Discover Bacterial Resistance To Improve Biofuel Production
2014-03-28 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a multi-institutional partnership led by Berkeley Lab, have identified the genetic origins of a microbial resistance to ionic liquids and successfully introduced this resistance into a strain of E. coli bacteria for the production of advanced biofuels. The ionic liquid resistance is based on a pair of genes discovered in a bacterium native to a tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico. We identified two genes in...
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