{"id":3071,"date":"2011-03-22T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2011-03-22T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:03:22","slug":"microbe-converts-cellulose-to-butanol-directly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/microbe-converts-cellulose-to-butanol-directly.html","title":{"rendered":"Microbe Converts Cellulose to Butanol Directly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, biobutanol production is focused on using edible feedstocks such as beets, corn starch, and sugarcane.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Liao<\/a>, a biomolecular engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, has developed two routes to liberate butanol from its dependence on food crops. Liao, who has a track record for commercializing innovative biofuels processes, has proven that microbes can produce the advanced biofuel directly from agricultural wastes, as well as from protein feedstocks such as algae.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.in\/energy\/36982\/\">http:\/\/www.technologyreview.in\/energy\/36982\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, biobutanol production is focused on using edible feedstocks such as beets, corn starch, and sugarcane. Now James Liao, a biomolecular engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, has developed two routes to liberate butanol from its dependence on food crops. Liao, who has a track record for commercializing innovative biofuels processes, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}