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The Emeryville, Calif.-based company has contracted with Biomin do BrasilNiutrciao to use its facilities to manufacture a chemical called farnesene, which is used for cosmetic products and lubricants.

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Amyris Inc., a California company, is installing fermenters at a Tate and Lyle corn processing plant in Decatur, Ill., to turn corn sugar into a chemical called farnesene.

Battle brewing over biofuels' future 2011

Emeryville, Calif. -based Amyris Inc. uses engineered yeast to convert sugar into a molecule called farnesene that can be used as a diesel substitute.

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In Brazil, Amyris will make farnesene from cane sugar, the same feedstock now used there for making fuel ethanol.

Battle brewing over biofuels' future 2011

Selling farnesene, Amyris's 15-carbon specialty chemical that can also be transformed into lubricants, would protect revenue further.

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Amyris will either sell farnesene, which it sells under the brand name Biofene, or it will treat the chemicals slightly and sell them for specific applications, such as lubricants.

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Amyris operates a small farnesene production plant in Sao Paulo state and is building facilities at mills owned by

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Amyris plans to produce as much as 50 million liters 13.2 million gallons of farnesene next year from facilities around the world, he said.

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The venture will start producing farnesene, a chemical that can be transformed into fuel, in 2014, Emeryville, California- based Amyris said today in a statement.

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In the study, aphids reared continuously on genetically engineered Arabidopsis thaliana plants that produced beta-farnesene became habituated to the pheromone within three generations and no longer responded to the compound, even though they still produced it.

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