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Researchers contend that large-scale forest bioenergy is neither sustainable nor greenhouse-gas neutral

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Land management trade-off: maximizing productivity vs. carbon stocks. The general assumption that bioenergy combustion is carbon-neutral is not valid because it ignores emissions due to decreasing standing biomass and contribution to the land-based carbon sink. NPP= net primary production. Schulze et al. Click to enlarge.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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The Dangl team seeks to apply the genetic and genomic information toward applications in bioenergy and carbon cycling research. A team led by Michael Pester from the University of Vienna in Austria proposed one of the CSP 2012 portfolio’s smaller sequencing projects. —Dangl team proposal.