In June, as the only Polish and one of about 20 journalists from Europe, I had the opportunity to participate in a closed training for opinion leaders dealing with biotechnology, which was to familiarize us with the latest technologies used in agriculture. In addition to training, we also took a tour...
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One of the most critical global challenges that people will have to face with are future effects of climate change, which have been widely neglected for many years and are sometimes still considered as “not our problem”. Agricultural biotechnology might be an indispensable tool for coping with such c...
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When we think about the climate change and greenhouse gases - human activities, like vehicles, industry and agriculture, comes to our mind. The gas, which is known to be highly harmful for our climate is carbon dioxide, but methane is even 23 times more dangerous in terms of global warming.
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DISCO project, led by VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed powerful enzymes, which are able to accelerate process of plant biomass conversion into sugar monomers and then into products such as bioethanol. Project results in lignin-tolerant enzymes and enzyme cocktails processing agricultural...
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