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Originally Posted by Occasionally6
Anything that can use cellulose (even better with lignin) is potentially good because that is what makes up most of all terrestrial plants.
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Yeast, consuming 6 Carbon sugars, are pretty much the best option at the moment, which, regardless of subsidies, is why that is the predominant biofuel.
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So if we can make plants grow glucose instead of lignin that would change all.
We would no longer have to use food crop; any woodlike plant would do.
(gives a whole new meaning to Maple Syrup  )
Once a plant has formed lignin it is pretty much useless as a biofuel source.
AFAIK there is no efficient way (yet) to obtain biofuel from delignification.
The Kraft process produces turpentine as a by-product, but apparently not efficiently enough to make it the primary reason for using that process.
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