<p>Now University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have engineered bacteria that can produce two chemical products at the same time from underutilized plant fiber. And unlike humans, these multitasking microbes can do both things equally well.</p>
<p>“To my knowledge, it’s one of the first times you can make two valuable products simultaneously in one microbe,” says <a href="https://energy.wisc.edu/about/energy-experts/timothy-donohue">Tim Donohue</a>, UW–Madison professor of bacteriology and director of the <a href="https://www.glbrc.org/">Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center</a>.</p>
<p>The discovery, <a href="https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.01268-23">detailed in a paper</a> in the December issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, could help make biofuels more sustainable and commercially viable.</p>
UW-Madison Engineers Microbes for Dual Plant Fiber Productivity
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