Category: Bioenergy and Bioproducts
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Posted on June 16, 2017
Into the wild: Exploring yeast biodiversity for better biofuel
In the world of biofuels research, the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae gets a lot of love, with scientists commonly tweaking the yeast’s fermentative qualities to […]
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Posted on June 6, 2017
Newly identified gene helps time spring flowering in vital grass crops
Winter is no time to flower, which is why so many plants have evolved the ability to wait for the snow to melt before investing […]
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Posted on May 30, 2017
“Packers” yeast, identified by a UW–Madison undergrad, uncovers a decades-old mistake in the yeast family tree
When Max Haase set out for a walk in Green Bay’s Baird Creek Nature Preserve on a May day in 2015, it was pretty normal […]
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Posted on April 19, 2017
Termite gut holds a secret to breaking down plant biomass
In the Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the incredibly efficient eating habits of a fungus-cultivating termite are surprising even to those well […]
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Posted on March 10, 2017
Cheese, cows and manure: Systems approach makes tough decisions easier to digest
Wisconsin is known as America’s Dairyland. More than one-third of all the cows in United States live on more than 3,000 farms in Wisconsin. Those […]
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Posted on February 6, 2017
Monsanto donates Middleton plant research facility to UW-Madison
A $10 million commercial biotech plant laboratory in Middleton, Wisconsin, first opened in 1982 with the help of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists, will soon become […]
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Posted on February 3, 2017
Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center – Audio
Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center Shawn Kaeppler, Professor Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences smkaeppl@facstaff.wisc.edu (608) 262-9571 FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://cropinnovation.cals.wisc.edu/ 3:06 […]
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Posted on November 28, 2016
Food scientist aiding fuel ethanol with new engineered bacteria
For James Steele, moving from the small fermenters where microbes make cheese, wine and beer to the multimillion-gallon tanks where corn is converted to ethanol […]
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Posted on October 17, 2016
With designer lignin, biofuels researchers reproduced evolutionary path
When scientists reported in 2014 that they had successfully engineered a poplar plant “designed for deconstruction,” the finding made international news. The highly degradable poplar, […]
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Posted on October 14, 2016
‘Super yeast’ has the power to improve economics of biofuels
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which […]