Gevo, a biotech firm in Englewood, Colo., is engineering bacteria to make
isobutanol from sugarcane and cellulosic plant waste.
Efforts to make
isobutanol from bacteria alone have been underway since 2000 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began distributing grants to universities that could demonstrate successful production of liquid biofuels.
Not exact matches
In between they turned the light off to shift their metabolism
from powering growth to producing
isobutanol.
Gevo, Inc., a NARA partner, successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived
from wood waste into renewable
isobutanol, which was then converted into Gevo's Alcohol - to - Jet (ATJ) fuel.