Alligator Tree Puts More Bite into Cellulosic Ethanol
The distinctive “alligator tree,” or sweetgum tree, may hold the key to a more efficient process for making cellulosic ethanol from biowaste. The sweetgum’s unusually rough bark gives it the reptilian nickname, and it is easily identifiable by the spike-festooned, gumball shaped seed cases hanging from its branches. But what caught the attention of researchers from the University of Florida is invisible to the naked eye.
