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January 28, 2011

Cow rumen metagenome study on Mother Nature Network

Ethanol makers will produce about 13 billion gallons of the renewable fuel this year, chiefly from corn. A 2007 law requires annual use of 36 billion gallons from 2022 and reserves 21 billion gallons of it for “advanced” biofuels.
 
The U.S. government offered $1.5 billion in October to help bring next-generation biofuels to market.

Read more on Mother Nature Network (sourced from Reuters)

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: bioenergy, biofuel, biomass, cow rumen, Eddy Rubin, enzyme, metagenomics, microbial genomics

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