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Reflections from the “Feed the Future” conference in Burkina Faso

By Atsuko Kanazawa, Igor Houwat, Cynthia Donovan This article is reposted with permission from the Michigan State University team. You can find the original post here: MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory By Atsuko Kanazawa Atsuko Kanazawa is a plant scientist in the lab of…

Isabel24/01/2018

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Putting Big Data to Work with ARPA-E’s TERRA Program

This week we spoke to Dr. Joe Cornelius, the Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). His work focusses on bioenergy production and conversion as a renewable and sustainable energy source, transportation fuel, and chemical feedstock,…

Isabel03/11/2017

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Taking the brakes off plant production: not so good after all

Reposted with kind permission from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Original article. By: Igor Houwat, Atsuko Kanazawa, David Kramer The need for speed: increasing plant yield is one way to increase food and fuel resources. But asking plants to simply do…

Isabel11/10/2017

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Potatoes, allies on Earth and on Mars

By Zoraida Portillo (Perú) A joint initiative between NASA and the International Potato Centre (CIP), which is based in Peru, offers scientific evidence that it is possible to grow at least four types of potatoes on Mars. A scenario starring…

Isabel06/10/2017

Blog Future Directions Interviews

The Regulator’s perspective: Why some gene-edited plants are not GM-regulated in Sweden

Dr. Staffan Eklöf, Swedish Board of Agriculture At July’s New Breeding Technologies workshop held in Gothenburg, Sweden, Dr. Staffan Eklöf, Swedish Board of Agriculture, gave us an insight into their analysis of European Union (EU) regulations, which led to their…

Isabel04/09/2017

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Reflections from the “Feed the Future” conference in Burkina Faso

Putting Big Data to Work with ARPA-E’s TERRA Program

Taking the brakes off plant production: not so good after all

Potatoes, allies on Earth and on Mars

The Regulator’s perspective: Why some gene-edited plants are not GM-regulated in Sweden

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