Re: OT...Got Garden? Daily Food Crisis in the News

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 Bill <b2forewagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> found at   http://slashdot.org/
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> Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 25, @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> from the hope-they-don't-unionize dept.
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> esocid alerts us to news that scientists from the University of Texas at

> Austin have created a microbe capable of making cellulose, which can 
> then be turned into ethanol. The bacteria use sunlight as an energy 
> source, and the cellulose can be harvested without destroying them. 
> Quoting:
> "The new cyanobacteria produce a relatively pure, gel-like form of 
> cellulose that can be broken down easily into glucose. 'The problem with

> cellulose harvested from plants is that it's difficult to break down 
> because it's highly crystalline and mixed with lignins [for structure] 
> and other compounds,' Nobles says. He was surprised to discover that the

> cyanobacteria also secrete large amounts of glucose or sucrose, sugars 
> that can be directly harvested from the organisms."

Let us hope that this actually gets USED and not hidden somewhere.
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