Enzymes Alter Piant.Growth for Easier Conversion into Biofuels

摘要

Anew approach to modifying plant cell walls could make plants easier to digest and convert to fuel. Biochemist Chang-Jun Liu and postdoc researcher Mohammad Bhuiya of the U.S. Dept. of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new enzyme and demonstrated its potential to interfere with the production of lignin, the component of plant cell walls that is most difficult to break down.