Jay Keasling, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director for Bioscience and the CEO of DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), explains how special strains of microbes can convert the biomass of non-food crops and agricultural waste into fuels for cars, trucks and jet planes. Keasling's research team at JBEI has developed E.coli that can digest switchgrass and convert the plant sugars into gasoline, diesel or jet fuel, not unlike the process by which beer is brewed.
Gregory Bokinsky, Pamela Peralta‐Yahya, Anthe George, Bradley M. Holmes, Eric J. Steen, Jeffrey A. Dietrich, Taek Soon Lee, Danielle Tullman‐Ercek, Christopher A. Voigt, Blake A. Simmons, Jay D Keasling
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