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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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AUGUST 18, 2015

As reported in a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal , this successful metabolic engineering and subsequent field production of the modified camelina crop marked the highest accumulation of the unusual oil achieved so far in transgenic plants. One of the team’s goals is to make commercial products using oils from the engineered plants.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), University of Maryland School of Medicine, published the sequence and analysis of the castor bean ( Ricinus communis ) genome in Nature Biotechnology. A research team co-led by scientists from the J.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a $13.5-million, million, multi-institutional research effort to improve sorghum as a sustainable source for biofuel production. It’s becoming more recognized that we need to move biofuel production to more marginal lands, so they don’t compete with food crops.

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JULY 23, 2009

million towards fundamental genomics-enabled research leading to the improved use of plant feedstocks for biofuel production. Awards have been selected for: Accelerating the Domestication of Miscanthus for Biofuel Production. University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. University of Florida, $643,000. Earlier post.)

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JULY 23, 2009

Seven projects have picked up a total of $6.3million towards fundamental genomics-enabled research that will lead to the improved use of plant feedstocks and biofuel production. The grants come from the US Departments of Energy and Agriculture under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Liska et al.

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