Category: Bioenergy and Bioproducts
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Posted on November 24, 2021
Donohue to lead Wisconsin Energy Institute
Tim Donohue says he is looking forward to increasing the Wisconsin Energy Institute’s positive outcomes for campus and society. WISCONSIN ENERGY INSTITUTE Tim Donohue, professor of […]
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Posted on January 25, 2021
Hype, hope and reality of hemp: CALS and Extension experts help farmers as the industry makes its resurgence in Wisconsin
In late 2018, Ralph and Beth Aschenbrenner started hearing a lot of good things about growing industrial hemp. Hemp is an incredibly versatile plant, known for its strong fiber […]
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Posted on December 16, 2020
Of mutant wranglers and slime whisperers: the quest to understand how certain plants form a fertilization partnership with bacteria
In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber sparked an agricultural revolution. Using enormous pressures and high temperatures, he had learned how to efficiently transform nitrogen, so abundant in […]
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Posted on October 2, 2020
Comparing heating fuels this fall – Audio
Scott Sanford, Rural Energy Program Outreach Specialist Biological Systems Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension College of Agricultural and Life Sciences sasanford@wisc.edu (608) 262-5062 […]
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Posted on July 20, 2020
Bioenergy research discovery paves way to production of new hydrocarbon
Fatty acids, the compounds that give a diet rich in leafy greens and fish its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits, are now also heralded for their […]
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Posted on June 11, 2020
Electrospinning turns tequila byproduct into water filter
Think of it as an environmental hangover. Tequila production in the Mexican state of Jalisco yields vast quantities of agave bagasse biomass, which poses serious […]
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Posted on June 9, 2020
WARF ranked 9th in global report of university patent producers
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages intellectual property for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has just been ranked ninth for U.S. utility patents granted in […]
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Posted on April 30, 2020
Researchers create hybrids of six yeast species to combine useful traits
Researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a method to combine traits from up to six different […]
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Posted on January 15, 2020
From poplar to painkiller: A renewable way to make acetaminophen also improves the bottom line for biorefining
With a new method to synthesize a popular painkiller from plants rather than fossil fuels, a team of researchers led by biochemistry professor John Ralph PhD’82 has […]
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Posted on September 11, 2019
UW–Madison awarded FFAR grant to map corn drought tolerance genes
The majority of America’s corn farmers rely on seasonal rainfall to water crops, yet extreme weather and drought present a growing challenge to the corn […]