BESC and Mascoma Develop Microbe for Efficient Biofuel Production
June 10, 2015http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-06/drnl-bmd060315.php
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Biofuels pioneer Mascoma LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center have developed a revolutionary strain of yeast that could accelerate the development of biofuels from non-food feedstock.
Although cellulosic biomass is abundant and cheap, because of recalcitrance, it is much more difficult to process than corn. However, Mascoma's new strain of yeast, proved highly effective at converting them.
C5 FUEL™, features fermentation that converts up to 97 percent of the plant sugars into fuel. While conventional yeast leaves more than one-third of the biomass sugars unused in the form of xylose, C5 FUEL™ efficiently converts this into ethanol, and accomplishes it in less than 48 hours.
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