Vital Funding for Rice Straw-to-Biofuel Project
November 27, 2013News Release: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2013/november/waste-rice-crops-provide-promise-for-sustainable-fuels-of-the-future.aspx
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A major international research project that seeks to develop new bacterial strains capable of converting waste rice straw into biofuel will receive over $2 million of UK funding, with matched resource from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in India.
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in India will collaborate to engineer enzymes, bacteria and bioconversion processes using synthetic biology toward the production of advanced biofuels from rice straw, the left over from rice harvests. Waste rice straw is typically burned by farmers in large quantities in order to dispose it. The team aims to develop an enzyme cocktail optimized for deconstructing rice straw into the necessary raw materials for biofuel production.
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