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Show Make Synthetic Sugar In California Laboratory BERKELEY, CALIF.-Production of synthetic sugar for the first time in the laboratory, in experimental quantities only, was announced by three University of California scien-tists. scien-tists. Lengthy experimentation of the chemical steps in the formation of sucrose by plants yielded two grams of commercial sugar, produced from fruit sugar and glucose phosphate. "The action was carried out by means of enzymes extracted from the bacterium 'pseudomonas saccro-chila,' saccro-chila,' " Dr. H. A. Barker, Dr. Michael Doudoroft and Dr. W." Z. Hassid announced. "No commercial application is possible at this time, since the process proc-ess far exceeds the cost of production produc-tion from natural sources," they reported. |