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How to Tackle Climate Change, Food Security and Land Degradation

July 7, 2020 sarah Jonas 2015 Paris Agreement, afforestation, Agriculture, Benefits, Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Carbon, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Storage, Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate, Climate Change, climate mitigation, Cropland, Crops, Development, Disasters, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Energy, Environment, Ethanol, Farming, Food, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Habitat, Human Ecology, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, IPCC, LAND, land degradation, Mitigation, New Jersey, NJ, Policy, Risk Management, Rutgers, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Shrubs, soil, Sustainability, Sustainable, Sustainable Development Goals, Trees, United Nations, water

How can some of world’s biggest problems – climate change, food security and land degradation – be tackled simultaneously? Some lesser-known options, such as integrated water management and increasing the organic content of soil, have fewer trade-offs than many well-known options, such as planting trees, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Global Change Biology.

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Science Snapshots July 2020

July 1, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioenergy, ferroelectric material, microbes

Berkeley Lab Science Snapshots July 2020

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New Effort to Link Plant Genes to Functions in Bioenergy Crops

June 19, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioenergy, Genomics, plant genes

A new Quantitative Plant Science Initiative led by Brookhaven Lab aims to decode the functions of genes and their impacts on productivity to guide efforts to develop sustainable bioenergy crops.

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Breathing New Life into an Old Question: What Plants’ Emissions Tell Us about their Cell Walls

June 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioenergy, bioenergy crops, plant biochemistry, Plant Biology

Plants emit gases like methanol and acetic acid that are not directly related to photosynthesis but that have an unknown origin. Researchers have found a possible source: natural chemical modification in the cellulose in plant cell walls and accompanying metabolic changes.

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Smart Farms of the Future: Making Bioenergy Crops More Environmentally Friendly

June 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioenergy, Biofuels, Sustainable Agriculture

Farmers have enough worries – between bad weather, rising costs, and shifting market demands – without having to stress about the carbon footprint of their operations. But now a new set of projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could make agriculture both more sustainable and more profitable.

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Seeing starch: Novel technique enables gentle observation of biofuel materials

February 25, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biomaterials, Carbohydrates, Microscopy, Raman spectoscopy

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to peer deep into the nanostructure of biomaterials without damaging the sample. This novel technique can confirm structural features in starch, a carbohydrate important in biofuel production.

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Biofuel producers make significant gains in efficiency, productivity and conservation, Argonne survey shows

November 11, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Bioenergy, Biofuel, Energy and Global Security

The nation’s biofuel producers have made significant gains in both energy efficiency and water conservation in recent years, according to a comprehensive survey conducted by Argonne National Laboratory.

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Decoding plant chatter could lead to stronger crops

October 29, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Agriculture, Bioenergy, Biofuel, Crops, Department Of Energy, microbes, Plant Science, plants, soil

Researchers will use a $2.25 federal grant to study how cells communicate within plants, and between plants and pathogens, to develop crops that are resilient to disease and other stresses. The work also could play a role in reengineering plants and microbes to improve biofuel production.

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How Many Copies Does It Take to Change a Trait?

October 1, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Bioenergy, Ecology, Genetic Variation, Genetics

New research shows that the number of copies of genes in a poplar tree affects its traits. Scientists developed a group of poplar trees in which different plants have DNA segments that are repeated or deleted.

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Danforth Center to Lead DOE-Funded Research to Harness Untapped Reservoir of Plant Genes in Quest for Bioenergy Crops

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Algae, Bioenergy, Department Of Energy, Plant Science

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Danforth Center Principal Investigator James Umen, Ph.D., to lead a multi-institutional collaboration that will predict functions for hundreds of uncharacterized plant genes that could be important to stress tolerance in a range of potential bioenergy crops.