Foreword
We begin with a genetic
discovery. Scientists at the US Cold Spring Laboratory have made a discovery relating
to the genetic framework behind flower growth in Sorghum. By suppressing one
plant hormone, scientists have been able to treble seed production by the
modified plants. In wild-type sorghum plants, not all of the flowers are
fertile, but with this genetic modification, all of the flowers become fertile,
producing seeds. Not only will this discovery be a breakthrough for sorghum
yields, and the livestock feed and biofuels sector that utilises grain sorghum
as a feedstock, but it is also postulated that similar modifications may be
successfully implemented in other grain crops. Shortage of food, fuel, and raw
materials is one of the biggest challenges that the world is going to have to
face in the future, and developments like this, that increase crop yields
without compromising on land usage, are going to be key to overcoming this
challenge, particularly in.........
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- Improving London's recycling
Markets
- US metal tariffs could shake global grains
market
- Increased imports reducing EU rapeseed
production
- Biofuels as solution to European plant
protein shortage
Research & Development
- Latest call for Bio-Based Industries Joint
Undertaking proposals
- Attis develops scalable lignin process
- Photocatalysis shows promise for biomass
conversion
- Switch to biomass creates need for port
space
- Interest in Ramie piqued in India
- Report into bioeconomies of European
countries
Wood & Crop
- GM sorghum shows tripling in number of
grains
- Investigating the potential of
"black" pellets
- How to deal with pellet silo fires
- Teesside set for "Subcoal" plant
- Fire at Enviva facility
- Stobart could deliver 2million tons of
biomass per year
- Particle board facility converts to pellet
production
- UPM receives Brassica sustainability
certificate
Other Feedstocks
- Plastic pyrolysis developing in Scotland
Events
Feedstock Prices