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Termite gut microbes could aid biofuel production

Termite gut microbes could aid biofuel production
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Microbes from Termite Gut Could Produce Biofuel

By contrast, lignin is an aromatic polymer that can be modified into beneficial industrial chemicals. Enzymes extracted from fungi can disintegrate lignin, which is considered the hardest among the three polymers to collapse. However, researchers are looking for bacterial enzymes that are simpler to synthesize. As part of an earlier study, Guillermina Hernandez-Raquet and collaborators demonstrated that gut microbes from four termite species could disintegrate lignin in anaerobic bioreactors. At present, together with Yuki Tobimatsu and Mirjam Kabel, they wished to have a closer examination of the process through which microbes from the wood-eating insects degrade lignin in wheat straw, and determine the changes they make to this material.

Termite gut microbes could aid biofuel production

Wheat straw, the dried stalks left over from grain production, is a potential source of biofuels and commodity chemicals. But before straw can be converted to useful products by biorefineries, the polymers that make it up must be broken down into their building blocks. Now, researchers reporting in

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