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Article: Michigan Inventors Develop Transgenic Plants
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- September 11, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Masomeh B. Sticklen and Shahina B. Magbool, both of East Lansing, Mich., and Bruce E. Dale of Mason, Mich., have developed a transgenic plants with ligninase and cellulase genes from microbes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides transgenic plants which after harvest degrade the lignin and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise ligninase and cellulase genes from microbes operably linked to a dioxyribonucleic acid encoding a signal peptide which targets the fusion polypeptide produced therefrom to an ...