Latest Articles:
- From poplar to ethanol: Plant could help save Northwest's biofuels industry
August 30, 2009--Oregon entrepreneurs hope to turn poplar trees into a viable source of ethanol, helping resuscitate the Northwest's import-reliant biofuels industry. ... more - Two genomic research projects to tackle supply and demand issues in emerging forestry biofuels industry
August 24, 2009--In order to reduce the Province?s greenhouse gas emissions, the BC Bioenergy Strategy is calling for greatly increased production of renewable biofuels such as ethanol, from biomass grown in BC. ... more - Michigan Tech News -- From the Roots Up, Developing Trees for Sustainable Biofuel
July 29, 2009--New tree varieties with wonder roots could one day supercharge the biofuel industry. ... more - Researchers' drive: Make biofuels thrive
July 29, 2009--Within the next decade, drivers around the country may get around powered by fuel made from pecan shells, switch grass or poplar trees, thanks to research at universities funded by more than $700 million in grants. ... more - ZeaChem says 2,000 gallon per acre threshold in site for its cellulosic ethanol process; high-yield path with fewer technical challenges than algae
July 24, 2009--In Montreal, ZeaChem, ranked #11 in the Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2008-09, confirmed that it is on track to complete a demonstration-scale plant in Boardman, Oregon where yields of more than 2,000 gallons per acre per year can be achieved. ... more - UF researchers receive $643,000 federal grant to study wood-quality gene for fuel production
July 23, 2009--A newly discovered gene may be the key to producing fuel ethanol more efficiently from trees, and the University of Florida researchers who identified it have received a prestigious federal grant to investigate further. ... more
Podcasts:
- The Science Podcast
A new discovery yields the New World's oldest writing; using a double pulsar to test Einstein's theory; the genome of the black cottonwood; and more (33 minutes). Science Podcast 15 September 2006 - Science Friday - Poplar Tree Genome
The genome of the poplar tree has been sequenced. Will trees replace corn as a potential biofuel source? SciFri Podcast - 2006091512
Past Articles:
- The Genome of the Black Cottonwood
- Knowing poplar's DNA is expected to yield biofuel advances and more
- First tree genome sequenced, could lead to next "biofuel" source
- Scientists hope mapping of black cottonwood sheds light
- Poplar's promise as ethanol crop
- Scientists turn new leaf, crack cottonwood DNA
- Tree's DNA offers hopes for ethanol production
- Scientists Decode First Tree Genome
- Gene secrets of the tree revealed
- First genetic roadmap of a tree hoped to aid liquid fuel options
- Scientists crack tree's genetic code
- Poplar genome enhances prospects for renewable bio-fuels
- Decoding tree's DNA may help environment
- Scientists unlock gene code of a tree
- Scientists study poplar for ethanol use
- West Virginia University Biology Professor Co-Authors Milestone Study in Genome Research; Research Makes Cover of Science
- Poplar tree genome sequenced
- Energy does grow on trees
- Fuel from trees? UF scienctists unveil research
- DOE begins international effort to sequence tree genome
- Tree genome sequence in eighteen months
- Mapping out the Populus genome
- Science Plan Drafts Available
- The book opens on the first tree genome
- First tree genome unveiled
- The Book Opens On The First Tree Genome
- Tree genome sequence in eighteen months
- International effort to sequence the first tree genome
- AG-BIO: Poplar Tree Genome to Be Sequenced
- First Tree Genome Sequenced
- The Book Opens on the First Tree Genome - DNA code harnesses poplar as renewable energy resource, can help stem global warming
- DOE Begins International Effort to Sequence Tree Genome
- Mapping out the Populus genome