University of Nottingham gets $2.25 to study biofuels from rice straw

November 19, 2013 |

In the UK, researchers from the University of Nottingham and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology will collaborate to engineer enzymes, bacteria and bioconversion processes that will help to produce advanced biofuels from waste rice straw.

The project, led by Professor Nigel Minton and Dr Syed Shams Yazdani, will receive $2.25 million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research council (BBSRC) in the UK, with matched resources from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in India. The research is part of a major international research project. The team hope to use synthetic biology to design bacterial strains capable of converting the straw into biofuel, after they have develop an enzyme cocktail optimized for deconstructing rice straw into the necessary raw materials for biofuel production.

Category: Research

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