The residues and the kind of vessel in which they were found indicate the initial use of the plant was not simply as a beverage, but the white pulp around the beans like coffee beans was likely used as a source of fermentable sugars for an alcoholic drink. (hogwildtrappers.com)
Its technology converts biomass into fermentable sugars usable in biochemicals, bioproducts and drop - in fuels. (news.wisc.edu)
This organism, discovered several years ago in Massachusetts, is a natural consolidated bioprocessor, expresses requisite enzymes for the extraction of fermentable sugars from biomass, and co-ferments all the C5 and C6 sugars into ethanol. (qteros.com)