Deep inside insects’ guts may lie the key to one of the biofuel industry’s great challenges: how to cost-effectively turn tough plant waste into profit-making fuel.
About 50 million tonnes of lignin are produced every year worldwide, mostly as waste after the sugar, or cellulose, in a plant has been converted into ethanol.
Tags: herbivorous insects, plant materials, termites, cutworm caterpillars, harbour enzymes, lignin, biodiversity, cost-effective way
Source: SciDev.Net, 2013-01-25.
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