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| - | ... | + | Over the past few decades there has been a movement towards renewable energy sources and greener technologies. One step in this movement has been to add ethanol to gasoline. Ethanol is a short-chain alcohol that many of us may be familiar with. It is produced via fermentation by microorganisms as the consume sugars in the absence of oxygen. Although ethanol is a usable fuel, it is not the most efficient. |
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| + | Butanol is also a short-chain alcohol, but is slightly larger than ethanol. Butanol possesses four carbon atoms in a chain while ethanol possesses two. Butanol is better suited for being a fuel, but it is not produced by as many microorganisms as produce ethanol. Although a production pathway from a bacterial strain has been isolated and optimized for photosynthetic cyanobacteria, it has never been expressed in plants. | ||
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Butanol in Plants Project
he butanol project’s goal is to synthetically produce the enzymes that make up the University of California’s cyanobacteria pathway to produce n-butanol within physcomitrella. Thereby making a plant directly produce n-butanol, an industrially relevant compound that can serve as a more efficient biofuel than ethanol. The project took on another goal when it was realized that an intermediary compound in the pathway could be used to produce (R)-Polyhydroxybutyrate, a biodegradable plastic.
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