The need to harvest trees for wood or pulp could be eliminated.

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The need to harvest trees for wood or pulp could be eliminated, claim researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. They maintain that the discovery of cellulose biosynthesis in nine species of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, may be the source of the genetic material also used for that process in present-day plants such as trees and cotton. According to researcher R...