In India, the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology has set up a biofuel center that will serve as a national facility for exclusive research and development activities in the larger area of bioenergy, including a pilot plant for biomass-based ethanol production using agricultural and forestry residues as feedstock.
In Florida, a team from the University of Florida has been selected for a $125 million project with the DOE and India. The research focuses on renewable resources, including deriving biofuels from inedible plant material including sorghum, sweet sorghum, pearl millet, bamboo, and switchgrass, but will also investigate their capacity to utilize waste streams. The […]
In Georgia, Michael Adams with the University of Georgia, is the senior author of a study published in mBio, reporting how he and his colleagues have made a temperature controlled microbe. They inserted a lactate dehyrogenase gene into a strategic spot, right next to a cold shock promoter that “turns on” the genes around it […]
In North Carolina, researchers from are studying Pyrococcus furiosus, microorganisms that live n the scalding waters of ocean volcanic vents, in an attempt to develop traits that will allow plants to survive in harsher conditions, opening up non-traditional areas as potential land for biofuel feedstock production. Research, which was originally started to develop plants that […]
In Tennessee, a team led by Pratul Agarwal of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered that light of specific wavelengths can be used to boost an enzyme’s function by as much as 30 fold, potentially establishing a path to less expensive biofuels, detergents and a host of other products. The researchers […]
In California, Burrill & Co released Biotech 2012, and in this year’s annual review focused intensively on “Innovating in the New Austerity.” The massive book provides analysis of the life sciences industry with data, graphs, and industry highlights including new product approvals, advances in technology, and details of financing and M&A transactions, and explains the […]
In Florida, combining the planting of a biofuels crop with a legume and a short-season oilseed crop may make an intensive and short rotation of crops economically profitable, according to research performed by plant pathologist Dan Chellemi. During 2010, he added a legume cover crop, which would supply part of the nitrogen, into the rotation […]
In England, algal research has come of age as Elsevier launches a new journal, Algal Research, inviting the international algal scientific community to publish papers in the areas of microalgae, macroalgae and cyanobacteria research, and their applications. Dr. José Olivares, appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Algal Research said, “After the 1st International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels […]
In Virginia, the National Wildlife Foundation has a new report out exploring the risk of using invasive species as feedstock for next generation biofuels. It looks at crops such as giant reed, Reed canarygrass and napiergrass, warning to not allow short-term economic benefits outweigh the environmental risks posed by including these species in bioenergy plans.
In Minnesota, a new study from the University of Minnesota shows that DDGS don’t contain high enough levels of antibiotics, used to reduce bacterial development to fermentation that can lead to production losses, to be of concern to livestock producers. Of the 117 samples collected from DGS and DDGS from around the country, only one […]
