Variation across a wheat genetic diversity panel for saccharification of hydrothermally pretreated straw

Abstract Background Wheat straw forms an important, reliable source of lignocellulosic biomass for use in second-generation ethanol production. However, there is limited understanding of the variation in quality of straw from current breeding cultivars, and studies on such variation have generally e...

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Main Authors: Samuel R. A. Collins, David R. Wilson, Graham K. Moates, Andrea L. Harper, Ian Bancroft, Keith W. Waldron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Biotechnology for Biofuels
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13068-017-0914-x