A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design vegetation that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to researchers at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.

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A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design vegetation that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to researchers at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. The pathway moves materials that determine cell shape and size through a system of signaling proteins, explains Dan Szymanski, a plant...