Team:Mississippi State/caleb

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Mississippi State is engineering a genetic system that selectively degrades lignin.  This will break biomass into its components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin.
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Mississippi State is engineering a genetic system that selectively degrades lignin.  This allows biomass to be fully utilized as a chemical feedstock.
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Before ethanol. Before biodiesel. Before biogas.

There is biomass. It must be broken down.


Mississippi State is engineering a genetic system that selectively degrades lignin. This allows biomass to be fully utilized as a chemical feedstock.