{"id":124319,"date":"2021-06-26T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/genetically-modified-yeast-to-efficiently-make-biofuels-from-discarded-plant-matter"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:24:19","slug":"genetically-modified-yeast-to-efficiently-make-biofuels-from-discarded-plant-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/genetically-modified-yeast-to-efficiently-make-biofuels-from-discarded-plant-matter","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Modified Yeast To Efficiently Make Biofuels From Discarded Plant Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-modified-yeast-to-efficiently-make-biofuels-from-discarded-plant-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The new system streamlines the process of fermenting plant sugar to fuel by helping yeast survive industrial toxins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More corn is grown in the United States than any other crop, but we only use a small part of the plant for food and fuel production; once people have harvested the kernels, the inedible leaves, stalks and cobs are left over. If this plant matter, called corn stover, could be efficiently fermented into ethanol the way corn kernels are, stover could be a large-scale, renewable source of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStover is produced in huge amounts, on the scale of petroleum,\u201d said Whitehead Institute Member and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) biology professor Gerald Fink. \u201cBut there are enormous technical challenges to using them cheaply to create biofuels and other important chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new system streamlines the process of fermenting plant sugar to fuel by helping yeast survive industrial toxins. More corn is grown in the United States than any other crop, but we only use a small part of the plant for food and fuel production; once people have harvested the kernels, the inedible leaves, stalks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,412,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}