How biotechnology can help farmers to power ahead
Date: 28.1.2007
BRITAIN'S fledgling bioenergy market has been given a substantial shot-in-the-arm as a result of two major research projects.
The Biotechnology and Biolgical Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has just announced that a substantial part of the latest tranche of a £13 million spend on improved farm crops will be devoted to growing more effective biofuel crops while the Myerscough College in Lancashire will be unveiling the results of its latest work in this field at the Autosport International Racing Car Show at Birmingham this weekend.
The BBSRC invests around £350m a year in life sciences. Increasingly this is being devoted to developing crops that will cope with climate change and the growing demand for bioenergy "The UK is home to some of the best plant science in the world," said Professor Julia Goodfellow, BBSRC's chief executive.
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