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Bienenvolk auf Wabenstruktur

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Insects as a resource

Their great diversity and broad food spectrum make insects a unique resource for the bioeconomy. This in-depth report sheds light on how humans utilise insects and the natural products they produce and highlights the research into innovative applications.

Die Sonnenblume ist äußerst anfällig gegen Krankheiten. Forscher wollen das ändern.
A special sunflower oil is used by researchers as a raw material to produce bio-based high-performance composites.

Chemistry Plants Chemistry

Bio-based plastic building blocks from domestic vegetable oil

Researchers in Bielefeld have developed an environmentally friendly process to produce bio-based polyurethanes for high-performance composites.

Bayer is funding sustainable agriculture.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Bayer is funding sustainable farming

As part of their initiative Bayer ForwardFarming the pharma company is now funding their fifth sustainable farm – this time in the Netherlands.

More then 100 experts gathered at Leopoldina in Halle to attend the International Bioeconomy Conference

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Halle: Focus on circular bioeconomy

The sixth International Bioeconomy Conference in Halle put a spotlight on novel innovations for a bio-based economy. This year's partner country was France.

Clariant plant Fusion mit US-amerikanischen Chemieriesen Huntsman
Clariant is planning a huge merger with chemical company Huntsman.

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Clariant to merge with Huntsman

A billion-dollar merger is occuring in the chemical sector: Clariant is planning to merge with US company Huntsman. Their headquarters will be in Switzerland.

Aus Ananasblättern und anderen Agrarresten macht Bio-Lutions innovative und umweltfreundliche Verpackungen
Bio-lutions forms eco-friendly packaging materials from agricultural residues like pineapple leaves.

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Upcycling startup receives Innovation Award

The Hamburg-based startup Bio-lutions uses fibres from agricultural plant waste to manufacture packaging materials. They won the award at a conference on bio-based materials in Cologne.

Smartes Grün aus der Küche: der Gewächsschrank von Agrilution liefert frische Kräuter rund ums Jahr.
A smart greenhouse for the kitchen will provide herbs and veggies year-round.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

High-tech herbs for your kitchen

Growing fresh herbs in a smart greenhouse in your kitchen: Munich-based startup Agrilution receives millions from investors Osram and Tengelmann.

During the Global Soil Week international experts came together to forward the SDG implementation and to protect fertil soil.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Global Soil Week: Focus on fertile ground

The role of soils within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals was discussed during the Global Soil Week. Roughly 300 experts met in Berlin for this conference. 

The initiative “Making Oceans Plastic Free“ aims to replace plastic bags with reusable shopping bags that fold into marine animals

Consumables Waste Social sciences

Reusable designer bags to combat plastic waste

A recycled bag produced in a marine animal design: Therewith a german-indonesian researcher initiative aims to fight against plastic waste. Now they started a crowdfunding campaign.  

Landwirt Robert Hagemann hat mit seinem Handy das Büro immer dabei.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Farming in the digital age

The Brandenburg farmer Robert Hagemann always has his office with him, albeit on his smartphone. These and other digital assistants facilitate his work out in the fields, in the stables or at the biogas plant.

Honey bees adapt their behavior to their environment - a chromosomal structure appaers to be the key to this process.

Agriculture and forestry Animals Biodiversity

DNA make-up determines behaviour of bees

Researchers at Hohenheim University deciphered the origin of differing behaviours between honey bees. Specific chromosomal structures define how they experience their surroundings.

BREAD4PLA won the Green Award for their innovation that turns bakery waste into 100% biodegradable biofilms for packaging.

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Green Awards for turning old bread into plastic bags

The annual EU Green Week 2017 hosted the Green Awards in Brussels. Innovations that turn bakery waste into biofilms and separate salt from water were awarded.

So far only big fish can be caught. This causes genetic and behavioral alterations within fish populations after few generations.

Food Animals Biodiversity

Size-selective fishing shapes evolution

Size-selective fishing influences genetic traits of fishes within only a few generations. This is the result of a long-term experiment of German und Finish evolutionary biologists.

Infection with the Rhizomania virus causes the loss of up to 80% of sugar beet yield. Left & right: infected pants; right: healthy

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Sugar beet: Danish relatives deliver resistance gene

The viral disease rhizomania is a severe sugar beet pest. In Danish relatives of beets researchers have identified a powerful resistance gene.

TU Munich and SunCoal developed a new process that produces biocoal from biomass in a short process time.

Energy Waste Energy technologies

Biocoal from organic waste as energy source

German engineers transform biowaste into high quality biocoal. In a second step syngas is generated to produce electricity.

New advancements in genetic engineering might enable the resurrection of the mammoth - but can it still be called that?

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New naming regulations for revived mammoth

Advances in biotechnology have paved the way for resurrection biology. But naming the “new-old” species might be tricky according to German law experts.

Professor Tabarelli erforscht den Einfluss des Menschen auf die Biodiversität tropischer Wälder.
Marcelo Tabarelli received the Humboldt Research Awardfor his work investigating how mankind affects biodiversity rainforests.

Agriculture and forestry Plants Biodiversity

Biodiversity in Brazilian rainforests

Brazilian scientist Marcelo Tabarelli received the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He investigates how mankind affects biodiversity in rainforests.

Evonik and Sungo have manufactured a handy but sturdy drinking bottle made from more than 50% renewable raw materials.

Chemistry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Unbreakable material made of biopolymers

Evonik and the Taiwanese company Sungo team up to create a drinking bottle made from more than 50 percent renewable raw materials, such as palm kernel and coconut oil.

A new technique enables the visualisation of DNA sequences in living plants: Nicotiana benthamiana with red-flluorescent DNA.

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Visualising DNA sections in living plant cells

Plant molecular biolologists from Gatersleben and Kaiserslautern use the CRISPR-Cas system to visualise genomic sections and to decipher their functions. 

Mitgründerin und Geschäftsführerin von Knödelkult, Janine Trappe

Food Plants Nutritional sciences

Making dumplings from leftover bread

The jars of dumplings made by start-up ‘Knödelkult’ in Constance are manufactured using old and unsold bread. Managing director Janine Trappe and her team have already rescued more than 1,700 loaves of bread that were destined for the rubbish bins.