Research

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Tomaten

Signposts for crisis-proof food systems

The Leibniz Research Network ‘Green Nutrition - Healthy Society’ provides recommendations for the reorganisation of food and agricultural systems, taking sustainability and resilience into account.

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Biopestizid als Alternative zu chemischen Pestiziden, um Böden und Artenvielfalt zu schützen.

Seed funding for SenseUP's biopesticides

The Cologne-based start-up SenseUP has concluded seed financing totalling 2.4 million euros. It will use the capital to drive forward its research activities in order to bring new biopesticides to market maturity.

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Kulturen der mikroskopisch kleinen Grünalge Chlamydomonas reinhardtii im Labor

A guide to algae cultivation

How can the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii be reliably cultivated in the laboratory? - A handbook by researchers from Bayreuth and Göttingen provides answers.

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Wurde das Gencluster in den rot markierten Bakterien ausgeschaltet, konnten sie kein Detergens mehr synthetisieren. Sie konnten sich dann nicht mehr so gut an die Oberfläche von Öltröpfchen anheften (links) wie normalerweise (rechts).

How a marine bacterium digests oil

Researchers were able to clarify how the oil-eating marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis synthesises a natural detergent to destroy the alkanes contained in crude oil.

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Investitionen in alternative Proteine ziehen in Europa wieder an.

GFI reports: Record investment in alternative proteins

Investment in the production of alternative proteins reached a new high in Germany last year. This is confirmed by the State of the Industry Reports of the Good Food Institute (GFI) Europe.

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Forschungsatlas

Research Map

In our research map you will find more than 800 research institutions in Germany dealing with topics relevant to the bioeconomy.

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