Can we use coal as a direct carbon substrate in microbial fermentation's?

10 October 2018 1 4K Report

Can we utilize coal as a carbon source directly for microbial fermentation? or how can we utilized coal for microbial fermentation processes?

Yongjin Zhou

I think it is umpossible rightnow, sicne the direct enzymatic C activation is challenging

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