My memory is slightly off. the codexis slides and presentation (I believe I listened to the 2q11 earnings call) discuss the analogous issue for ethanol from sugarcane, not corn. There is a slide deck on the IR page: http://ir.codexis.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=208899&p=irol-irhome
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