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Plants as producers of platform chemicals

platform chemicals
By: Ingrid Van der Meer · 24 March 2016
Category: Biobased products, Biomass, Chemicals

The production of platform chemicals is one of the developments with lots of potential, as we gradually need to become less dependent on petroleum.

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