Corn Stalks. It's What's for Dinner ... If You're a Microbe.
August 07, 2026
August 07, 2026
LA JOLLA, California, Aug. 7 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news:
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Corn Stalks. It's What's for Dinner... If You're a Microbe.
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Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. While the new multiple-sugar-consuming strain of the bacteria Pseudomonas putida is interesting in its own right, a new . . .
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Corn Stalks. It's What's for Dinner... If You're a Microbe.
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Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. While the new multiple-sugar-consuming strain of the bacteria Pseudomonas putida is interesting in its own right, a new . . .