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University of Illinois Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research | by Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) | Thu, Jul 30
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Producers already make grain ethanol by using yeast to ferment six-carbon plant sugars like glucose. But cost-effective production of cellulosic ethanol will require using both six-carbon and five-carbon sugars in the process.
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