truePlant Research Laboratory12/19/2023A research team led by MSU scientists has made a biological discovery that could help sorghum become an even more promising biofuel feedstock.

• In a collaboration with Texas A&M, Michigan State University researchers have identified enzymes responsible for degrading a component of cell walls in sorghum called mixed-linkage glucan, or MLG.
• Sorghum is a crop with promise as a biofuel feedstock and most of the biomass used for biofuel comes from a plant’s cell walls.
• Learning more about these enzymes could thus help sorghum live up to its fullest potential.

Kara HeadleyMSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratorybiofuelplant biology