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• a  capable of being fermented

• Their brews retain the character of the original ingredients, which can include anything organic and fermentable, from potatoes to grain to beets.
• Dancing on a legal pinhead for the past four years have been the manufacturers of fermentable grape concentrates.

News & Articles

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• Genetically modified tobacco plants are viable for producing biofuels
  An agricultural engineer has demonstrated, for the first time, the viability of using specific tobacco proteins (known as thioredoxins) as biotechnological tools in plants. Specifically, she has managed to increase the amount of starch produced in the tobacco leaves by 700% and fermentable sugars by 500%.
  Oct. 14, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Nick Lane in Oneindia
  With industrial biotechnology processes that use enzymes to convert crops and crop residues to fermentable sugars, the United States could produce over 70 billion gallons of ethanol a year from cellulose-containing crop residues, such as corn... Jim Greenwood http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Greenwood&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF_1Uh19OaSCxGMkRM9Lch9JIddXg PR Newswire (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl%3FACCT%3D104%26STORY%3D/www/story/04-25-2006/0004347325%26EDATE%3D&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHKHPoZaUvaGyKxcNytmrosJvxaCQ Apr 25, 2006 36996 47823 fermenting Textbooks have it that life arose from organic soup and that the first cells grew by fermenting these organics to generate energy in the form of ATP. We provide a new perspective on why that old and familiar view won't work at all," said team...