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Title: Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics

Abstract

In a first step toward achieving industrial-scale green production, scientists from BNL and collaborators at Dow AgroSciences report engineering a plant that produces industrially relevant levels of chemicals that could potentially be used to make plastics.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1328767
Resource Type:
Multimedia
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; PLANTS

Citation Formats

Shanklin, John. Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics. United States: N. p., 2010. Web.
Shanklin, John. Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics. United States.
Shanklin, John. Tue . "Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1328767.
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author = {Shanklin, John},
abstractNote = {In a first step toward achieving industrial-scale green production, scientists from BNL and collaborators at Dow AgroSciences report engineering a plant that produces industrially relevant levels of chemicals that could potentially be used to make plastics.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Tue Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
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