Ha, I only wish I was this good!

So what does this mean? Well, you can engineer plants to increase the glucan to xylan ratio. You can select feedstocks with a more favorable ratio. And/or you can focus on hosts and other bioprocessing strategies to enable full consumption of both sugars in less time.

How much xylan vs. glucan is in your original feedstock REALLY matters. Capital-constrained biorefineries operating with shorter residence times can justify paying up to 1.5X to 2X the price for feedstocks with very high glucan to xylan ratios.

My fabulous postdoc, Jaya, led a new analysis in which we used empirical data to figure out how the glucose-to-xylose ratio in 🌱 feedstocks impacts likely residence times and costs. We looked at ethanol (anaerobically produced) and bisabolene (aerobically produced).

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