Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. With our automated culturing platform, we engineered a bacterial strain using evolution capable of taking up all three sugars found in corn stalks quickly and simultaneously,” said Adam Feist, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego and the senior author on the paper. Read More: University of California – San DiegoImage: UC San Diego bioengineering professor Adam Feist (L) and Sunghwa Woo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Feist lab at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. (Credit: University of California San Diego)