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New Enzyme Converts Plant-Derived Lignin to Bioplastics

Arsenij Percov — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:46:29 +0000

An international research team, including scientists from U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has discovered a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes. They are highly versatile enzymes, which can be found in the human body. They are involved in different important metabolic pathways. For decades, researchers only knew about Families A through M […]

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New Enzyme Allows Plants to Consume More CO2 and Save Water

Mike Sandru — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:15 +0000

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered new plant enzymes that can allow plants to save water while consuming more CO2 from the atmosphere. The enzyme causes the plants to react to CO2 and change how they use their pores and by modifying the enzyme, scientists believe that could be developed more CO2- and drought-tolerant crops.

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How Termites Help Producing Ethanol From Wood

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:49:25 +0000

Michael Scharf, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and his colleague AurÃƒÆ’©lien Tartar describe the way that the enzymes produces by termites and the micro-organisms living inside them, or their "symbionts" could help the scientists produce ethanol from straw or wood by providing some basic chemical processes.

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