Category: Bioenergy and Bioproducts
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Posted on February 20, 2018
The new bioenergy research center: Building on ten years of success
Building on the success of 10 years of investigation into the production of renewable fuels from plants, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), led […]
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Posted on February 15, 2018
Can perennial bioenergy crops help sequester carbon?
In an article published last summer in Science, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) reported on ten years of work assessing the potential climate benefit […]
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Posted on November 14, 2017
UW entrepreneurial pipeline lands Lactic Solutions in biofuels marketplace
When Jim Steele thinks back over the last seven years, from the early research on biofuels, followed by a dream of moving Lactic Solutions LLC […]
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Posted on July 18, 2017
DOE selects Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center for next-phase funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) for an additional five years of funding to develop sustainable alternatives to […]
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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 […]