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Associated Press - April 21, 2009 11:34 PM ET
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana company is making a genetically modified yeast it hopes will become a cheaper source of ethanol.
Green Tech America Inc. of West Lafayette says the yeast ferments both major forms of sugar and can turn corn cobs, wood chips and other agricultural wastes into ethanol.
Green Tech has licensed the yeast technology developed by Chemical Engineering professor Nancy Ho and her team. That license allows the company to sell the new yeast and provide other companies with the technical help to use it at their ethanol plants.
Although the Purdue yeast is available now, Ho says she expects her 3-year-old company to begin full-scale production of the product in about a year at its headquarters at the Purdue Research Park. Ho says her team is the only one in the United States that's developed a yeast of this type.
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