R&D
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Evogene targets castor bean market in 2016
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Plant genomics company Evogene Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Evofuel Ltd., has completed three years of successful field trials in Brazil for the development of castor bean conducted in cooperation with SLC Agrícola S.A., one of Brazil’s largest landowners and leading agriculture businesses. Evofuel’s castor seed varieties have the potential of being highly attractive to…
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Neste Oil, Raisioagro to develop straw-based diesel
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Neste Oil and Raisioagro have launched a research project to investigate the potential of straw as a raw material for producing renewable diesel. Large quantities of waste straw are produced as agricultural residue in Finland and elsewhere, and only a small proportion of this is currently used. The project will study whether a logistically effective…
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US, UK researchers bag grant for fertilizer alternative
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Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.K.’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using…
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Protected: Unilever launches renewable chemicals research
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Protected: Evonik develops lauric acid-based PA12
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Protected: Modular Genetics Demonstrates Bio-Glycinate Production
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