Bioeconomy News

Bacillus subtilis is a multi-talent - equally important for human and animal health as well as for industry.

Improving the taste and consistency of plant-based meat substitutes is the focus of a new research partnership between Holzminden-based Symrise AG and Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Exotic spices are key to baking cookies. But instead of coming from India, vanilla and pepper could soon come from domestic indoor farms.

Researchers have discovered how the cabbage white butterfly detoxifies toxic mustard oils from its food source.

Traceless has developed a pilot product from its innovative biomaterial, which is currently being used in a Hamburg store of the C&A fashion chain.

A worldwide consortium with the participation of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to advance the genome sequencing of eukaryotic unicellular organisms and make it available as a resource for the bioeconomy.

A new reforming process generates another source of fuel from biogenic waste.

Heat-resistant enzymes could be incorporated into biodegradable plastics to accelerate their decomposition.

With the help of an innovative plasma technology, researchers have paved the way to protect grain from pests and thus make it last longer.

Gene scissors are an important tool in genome editing, but they originated in the battle between bacteria and phages.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is funding 13 new collaborative research centers at universities with a total of 166 million euros - including two on the bioeconomy.

Researchers at the University of Hohenheim want to make proteins from plants from meadows and pastures usable for the bioeconomy. A protein extract for animal feed has already been obtained.

A flexible vertical greening system developed by Fraunhofer researchers has reached market maturity after years of research.

Researchers at TU Dresden work on sustainable stage design made of a composite material with fungal mycelium. The corresponding premiere is at the beginning of December in Munich.

Researchers reconstructed the distribution of global plant diversity and used it to create a world map showing where and how many plant species exist.

A silicone sponge can be used to detect bacteria that cannot be cultured in the laboratory and to analyze their DNA.

The Gregor Mendel Foundation has awarded the Innovation Prize to researchers Nils Stein and Martin Mascher from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben for their contributions to decoding the complex genomes of wheat, barley and rye.

Researchers in Hamburg want to tap new sources of raw materials - straw, to be precise - in order to obtain cellulose fibers for the textile industry.

The Potsdam-based start-up Targenomix uses systems biology and bioinformatics to develop new crop protection products.

Plant researchers from Tübingen have investigated epigenetic marks in a crop plant - the field penny-cress. These adapt to the climatic conditions of a site.