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Foreword
For 11,000 years, since the invention of agriculture, mankind has
striven to improve plants for food use by selecting the tastiest, most
resistant and most productive lines, and breeding them. Despite recent
technological advances, selective breeding remains common practice and is now
also being used to improve feedstocks destined for the production of biofuels,
bioenergy and biobased products.
Undeveloped plants like hairy stork’s-bill have
been identified as having the potential to become a pharmaceutical crop and to
be grown on an industrial scale. Over the past decade, researchers have
developed agricultural practices that can increase yield by 10-fold, however,
they believe that selective breeding will be key to increase yields to a point
where this could become an industrial crop. This hypothesis is supported by
long-term experimentation...
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- UK Government takes first steps to relax
gene editing regulation
Markets
- Neste
acquires US waste oil interests
- Danimer scientific receives grant from
United Soybean Board
- Global wood fibre markets
Research & Development
- The battle for biomass: A systematic review
of food-feed-fuel competition
- The multifaceted environmental and
bioeconomy potential of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)
- More...
Wood & Crop
- FutureMetrics addresses forest carbon debt
fallacy
- Miscanthus research gets government funding
to help the UK to meet net zero
- More...
Other Feedstocks
- DS Smith exploring how seaweed fibres can be
used as a raw material in paper and packaging products
- Biomethanol: possibilities towards a
bio-based economy
Events
Feedstock Prices