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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Slightly more than half of the GHG emissions for these biofuels in the EPA’s analysis came from land use change. Earlier post.).

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SG Biofuels applying 1.6M genetic markers to Jatropha reference genome

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The company made the announcement during its presentation at the Biowise 2011 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through Jatropha re-sequencing efforts, millions of individual SNPs are discovered, which SG Biofuels uses to rapidly identify, track and capture the traits most responsible for increased yield and profitability.

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