Bioenergy Science Center presents stategy to overcome biomass recalcitrance

In California, Dr. Martin Keller, Director of the BioEnergy Science Center, presented on “An Integrated Strategy to Understand and Overcome Biomass Recalcitrance” at the Biofuels: Science and Innovation conference. “Solving this will cut processing costs significantly,” said Dr. Keller, “and be used in most
conversion processes”

He offered a 5-year timeline for “Modified plants to field trials”. Download Dr. Keller’s presentation here.

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