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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Researchers led by Washington University in St.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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The proposal that won the Department of Energy’s approval includes $8 million to support development and testing of biorefineries that that feature modular design and construction for ease of manufacturing and mass production. The new process produces sugars that can be fermented to biofuels and a solid fuel suitable as a coal substitute.

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