Search Results for 'Poplar'

FOA La La La La: DOE decks your halls with new Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose Grown Energy Crops program

December 19, 2023 | Jim Lane

In Washington, the US Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office announced its notice of intent (NOI) to issue a funding opportunity announcement that will drive the research and development of low-carbon, purpose-grown energy crops leading to the deployment of clean energy technologies. The planned Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose-Grown Energy Crops funding opportunity will support […]

Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers modify grass plants for easier bioenergy conversion

October 30, 2023 | Meghan Sapp

In New York state, plant biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofuels and other bioproducts. As described in a paper just published in Plant Biotechnology Journal, these enzymes modify molecules that make up plant cell walls to provide access to […]

Indian biofuels tech firm GPS Renewables acquires German company Proweps

August 11, 2023 | Juan Pedro Tomas

In India, Outlook India reported that Indian biofuels technology firm GPS Renewables has acquired Germany-based Proweps Envirotech, a design and engineering company that specializes in technologies to utilize municipal and industrial organic waste and for biogas production. According to the report, GPS Renewables has set up over 100 biogas plants across India. Meanwhile, Proweps’ flagship […]

AIMPLAS project assesses cultivation of biobased feedstocks on marginal land

July 24, 2023 | Rebecca Gendron

In Europe, a multi-institute project evaluating the use of marginal land to cultivate trees and shrubs for use as feedstocks for bioplastics, biochar, and pet litter has achieved “promising results.” The group assessed growth of Siberian elm, common juniper, hoary rock-rose, rosemary, birch, common broom, blackwood acacia, mora, common hornbeam and black poplar across six […]

ORNL researchers ID specific proteins and amino acids that could impact growth and carbon storage

April 4, 2023 | Meghan Sapp

In Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified specific proteins and amino acids that could control bioenergy plants’ ability to identify beneficial microbes that can enhance plant growth and storage of carbon in soils. The research is published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. These proteins, called LysM receptor-like kinases, regulate signaling between […]

DOE renews its four Bioenergy Research Centers with $590M in funding

March 20, 2023 | Meghan Sapp

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $590 million to renew its four existing Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs). This funding will help support the Department’s research into the next generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy from domestic biomass resources, which is critical to reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring future energy security, […]

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Improved Advanced Biomass Logistics Utilizing Woody Feedstocks

October 3, 2022 | Jim Lane

Harvesting and transportation makes up 40 –60% of the delivered cost of SRWC and are an important source of GHG emissions. Harvesting systems are not well developed — throughput decreases up to 65% from harvester to short term storage. Changes in biomass quality and impacts of pretreatment techniques are not well understood. And most of […]

ORNL researchers add gene into switchgrass allowing it to interact with beneficial fungus

December 15, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In Tennessee, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team has successfully introduced a poplar gene into switchgrass, an important biofuel source, that allows switchgrass to interact with a beneficial fungus, ultimately boosting the grass’ growth and viability in changing environments. Scientists observed the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor as it enveloped the plant’s roots. This behavior, not […]

ORNL researchers make breakthrough discovery of how genes function in plants

September 9, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In Tennessee, for decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function—produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to human diets. But for researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, this enzyme does more than advertised. They had run a series of experiments on poplar plants that […]

Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers ID enzyme to create major chemical from polar trees

August 5, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In New York state, scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory studying the biochemistry of plant cell walls have identified an enzyme that could turn woody poplar trees into a source for producing a major industrial chemical. The research, just published in Nature Plants, could lead to a new sustainable pathway for making “p-hydroxybenzoic acid,” a chemical […]