Boosters claimed that cellulose, from which the stalks, leaves and wood of plants are made, could if suitably treated become a substitute for the starch in corn.

倡导者们声称纤维素(组成植物的根、茎、叶和木材)如果能够被恰当处理，就能够成为玉米中所含的淀粉的替代物。

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A simple way of garnering cellulose is to gather up the leftovers when these crops have been processed-bagasse from sugar cane, stover from corn and straw from wheat.

一个收集纤维素的简单方法就是从作物被加工后的剩余物中提取纤维素——剩余物包括甘蔗的甘蔗渣，玉米的秸秆和小麦的麦秆。

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Cellulose biofuels have advantages over ethanol from corn and sugar cane.

用纤维素生产生物燃料比将玉米和甘蔗产乙醇有诸多好处。

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Even as producers have urged the EPA to lift this bar, it has challenged them to move beyond corn and make ethanol from cellulose, the abundant, inedible portion of most crops.

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Corn ethanol also has no chance of curing the nation's addiction to foreign oil. (Ethanol from cellulose would be more of a winner, but the technology does not yet exist.) Neither of these inconvenient truths will necessarily prevent U.S. politicians from bailing out the distillers.

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