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Gabi Zachmann/KIT

22.08.2022 Interview

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

“Climate change and land use are closely linked”

Leibniz Prize winner Almut Arneth researches the interactions and feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change.

Für die einen Unkraut, für die anderen schöne Sommerblumen: drei Kamillearten.

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Bärbel Gerowitt / Universität Rostock

A weed for some, a beautiful summer flower for others: chamomile.

29.08.2022 News

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

Plant diversity keeps weeds in check

Growing a variety of crops in the field can prevent unwanted weeds from spreading and reducing yields.

Samen aus Steinobstkernen, zum Beispiel von Aprikosen, Kirschen und Pflaumen (von links), sind gesunde Kraftpakete und stecken voller Nährstoffe, Mineralien und Vitamine.

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Kern Tec GmbH

Seeds from stone fruits, for example from apricots, cherries and plums (from left), are healthy powerhouses and are full of nutrients, minerals and vitamins.

30.08.2022 News

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

BayWa invests in fruit pit rescuers

BayWa Venture GmbH becomes new strategic partner of Austrian start-up Kern Tec, which processes fruit pits into new food products.

Meerestrauben, die auf einer Hand liegen

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Lara Stuthmann/Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung

Sea grapes, here from an aquaculture in Vietnam, are rich in antioxidants.

01.09.2022 News

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

More light makes for better sea grapes

Proper lighting allows edible algae to produce twice as many nutrients.

Orange, Glas mit brauner Flüssigkeit und Proben von Bioverbundwerkstoffen

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SKZ – Weiterbildungs-Zentrum

The OrangeOil project aims to obtain epoxy resin from orange peels for use in biocomposites.

05.09.2022 News

Chemistry Waste Chemistry

Epoxy resin from orange peel

A German-Turkish collaboration recycles residual materials from the fruit juice industry into epoxy resins.

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BIOCOM/bb

Wooden houses like the bPart in Berlin's Park am Gleisdreieck could curb climate change in cities.

06.09.2022 News

Construction Plants Biodiversity

Wooden buildings have enormous potential as carbon stores

Multi-story houses made of wood could save more than 100 billion tons of greenhouse gases in cities by 2100, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

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Philip Koch

Olive cultivation in Spain is one of the case studies in the Flumen research project.

01.09.2022 Success story

unspecific unspecific Bioökonomie mitgestalten

Not everyone wants the bioeconomic transformation

A research project examines mentalities, their backgrounds and consequences regarding the ecological-social transformation.

Hanf (Cannabis sativa) ist von der Anbauzeit eine Zwischenfrucht.

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Wikipedia CC BY 3.0

Hemp is an intercrop in terms of cultivation time.

14.09.2022 News

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

Industrial hemp for climate-friendly agriculture

Researchers are investigating whether the cultivation of hemp as an intercrop can lead to a reduction in nitrate concentrations in the soil and whether hemp leaves can replace the soy content in the feed of dairy cows.

Laboraufbau mit Reaktionsgefäßen und Schläuchen

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Mareile Silvia Rohlf

With this apparatus, researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum are testing the biobased production of the solvent dimethylfuran on a small scale.

13.09.2022 News

Chemistry Plants Chemistry

Biobased solvent to be ready for the market

A research project has developed dimethylfuran as a solvent for paints and coatings. Production is now being scaled up.

Im Sinne der verbraucher wird der Selstar in einer umweltfreudlichen Verpackung aus Karton verkauft.

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Hochschule Osnabrück

The Selstar is sold in environmentally friendly cardboard packaging.

05.04.2022 Success story

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

From Elstar to Selstar

Researchers have developed a selenium-rich apple that can replace dietary supplements.

Sehr reines Chitin findet sich in den Deckflügeln des Maikäfers.

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Wikimedia Commons/Gemeinfrei

High purity chitin is found in the cockchafer's mating wings.

06.04.2022 News

Chemistry Animals Biotechnology/Systems biology

Cracking the natural code of chitin

How is chitin produced by nature? Researchers want to uncover this in order to make the biopolymer useful for medicine.

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Pixabay

BASF's new biosurfactant is suitable for numerous products - including washing lotions.

07.04.2022 News

Chemistry Plants Chemistry

BASF: New biosurfactant for natural cosmetics

BASF's Care Chemicals is expanding its portfolio of sustainable cosmetic products with a bio-based surfactant made from soy protein.

Früchte der allergikerfreundlichen Apfelsorte 'ZIN 168'.

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Hochschule Osnabrück

The allergy-friendly apple variety ZIN 168.

11.04.2022 News

Agriculture and forestry Plants Plant breeding research

New apple varieties for allergy sufferers

Researchers from Osnabrück, Munich and Berlin have developed ZIN 168 and ZIN 186, the first apple varieties in Europe to be officially certified as allergy-friendly.  

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Wolfram Scheible/Universität Hohenheim

Bioethanol from the Giant Miscanthus combined with carbon storage in depleted petroleum reservoirs can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

13.04.2022 News

Energy Plants Agriculture sciences

Chinese reed as a climate-friendly bioethanol source

The Giant Miscanthus is intended to become a feedstock for sustainable fuel alternatives on marginal lands.

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Pixabay

The majority of the approximately 30,000 wind turbines are located on land.

19.04.2022 News

Machine and plant engineering unspecific Plant and process engineering

Better recycling of rotor blades

Researchers want to optimize existing recycling concepts for the efficient reuse of raw materials from rotor blades of old wind turbines.

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traceless materials GmbH

11.04.2022 Product

Consumables Waste

Packaging film

Instead of producing polymers synthetically, take what nature has already produced: A special technology can be used to extract biopolymers from agricultural residues - making them not only naturally degradable, but even edible.

Flyer für Nachwuchswettbewerb Green Talents Award 2022

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DLR

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is once again looking for the best "green talents".

21.04.2022 News

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Green Talents competition: Call for innovative ideas

This year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is once again calling on young researchers from all over the world to apply for the Green Talents Award with innovative ideas for a sustainable future.