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The research, done with the University of California at Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), is a step toward lowering the cost of making biodiesel from wood chips, corn stover, and other residual agricultural products.
LS9 is one of a handful of U.S. synthetic biology companies that are manipulating microorganisms to convert plants into liquid fuels or plastics.
LS9 convert sugar cane into biodiesel using an existing organism. That plant, which use an existing microorganism, will open this summer and pave the way for large-scale manufacturing and sales in 2012.
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