Ingram, Luli Photo

Lonnie Ingram, right, a professor of microbiology with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, holds a Petri dish containing the new bacterium that produces ethanol from biomass — May 3, 2005. Greg Luli, left, vice president of research for BC International Corp.’s laboratory at the Sid Martin Biotechnology Center in Alachua, Fla., said the firm plans to build a 30-million-gallon biomass-to-ethanol plant in Jennings, La. The plant’s technology and process will be based upon Ingram’s genetically engineered bacteria.

(AP photo by Thomas Wright/University of Florida/IFAS)
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