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Science 2 December 1977:
Vol. 198. no. 4320, pp. 942 - 944
DOI: 10.1126/science.198.4320.942
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Plant Crops as a Source of Fuel and Hydrocarbon-Like Materials

PETER E. NIELSEN 1, HIROYUKI NISHIMURA 1, JOHN W. OTVOS 1, and MELVIN CALVIN 1

1 Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 94720

Chemical analyses have been made of a number of plant species in order to assess their suitability as renewable sources of hydrocarbon-like photosynthetic products. Yields of rubber and wax, glycerides, isoprenoids, and other terpenoids were estimated. Individual sterols were identified in latex from some species.

Submitted on April 12, 1977
Revised on August 15, 1977


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