date:Dec 27, 2012
ble raw material to start with so the end product will be more profitable, said Thakker, a research scientist in the Bennett lab at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative and lead author of the study. The challenge has been to make this biomass process cost-competitive with the petrochemical methods people have been using for many years.
Bennett feels they have done that with soybean-derived feedstock as an inexpensive source of the carbon that microorganisms digest to produce the desired che