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Adaptation of rice shows use of symbiogenics as a new strategy for reducing impacts of climate change and catastrophes on plants

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In an open-access paper published in the journal PLoS ONE , a team lead by researchers from the US Geological Survey reported adapting two commercial rice varieties to cold, salt and drought stress simply by colonizing them with Class 2 fungal endophytes isolated from plants that are salt and temperature stress tolerant.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. The refining technology is probably about $4-5/barrel more expensive to make renewable diesel out of fats and greases.there’s not a lot of extra cost on the refining technology.

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