BNL team devises new method to boost oil accumulation in plant leaves; implications for biofuel production
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Researchers at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new method to increase significantly the amount of oil accumulated in plant leaves, which could then serve as a source for biofuel production. This represented an approximately 150-fold increase in oil content compared to wild type leaves. —John Shanklin.
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