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Lene Lange, biorefinery expert from Denmark, held the keynote lecture during the first day and highlighted the diverse possibilities of bioconversion.

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Bioeconomy conference in Stuttgart

What will the industry of tomorrow look like? 350 experts discussed future directions during the second international bioeconomy conference in Stuttgart.

Drop-in Kraftstoff aus Biomasse und elektrischer Energie.
Researchers have shown that the combination of microbial and electrochemical conversion of complex biomass can yield valuable products.

Automobile Microorganisms Agriculture sciences

Fuel from biowaste and electricity

Leipzig-based researchers have shown that the combination of microbial and electrochemical conversion of biomass can yield valuable products such as fuel.

Die Tubulusmembranen (grün und gelb) des Pyrenoids sind umspült von einem “Meer” aus Rubiscoenzymen (blau).
Algae concentrate the carbon dioxide binding enzyme Rubisco n a microcompartment called pyrenoid. Surprisngly, the pyrenoid behvaes like a liquid instead of an expected solid crystall structure.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Algae bind carbon with liquid compartment

Algae fix carbon dioxide more efficiently than land plants. An international research team deciphered the surprisingly liquid mechanisms behind it.

Wasserassel ist unliebsamer Bewohner des Trinkwassers

Agriculture and forestry Animals Biodiversity

Tracking water lice with a DNA check

In your drinking water, water lice are likely to count as unwanted guests. Ecologists in Landau, Germany, are using a rapid DNA test to find out more about the origins and distribution of crustaceans in wells, waterworks and pipelines.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Pearl millet genome deciphered

Scientists from Gatersleben helped decipher the genome sequence of the pearl millet, a drought resistant crop plant that grows even on nutrient-deficient soil.

Christian Griebler, Kommissarischer Leiter des Instituts für Grundwasserökologie (IGOE), Helmholtz-Zentrum München

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Understanding and protecting the groundwater ecosystem

We all make use of the groundwater, yet only few of us notice it as an ecosystem. Munich biologist Christian Griebler is working to change this perception.

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Open Access accelerates sustainability

With soon to be 9 billion people on the planet, we need to establish a more sustainable economy, urges Kamila Markram. Scientists are working hard on these issues, but progress is delayed by paywalls in front of new publications.

Myanmar: at the longest teak wood bridge in the world parts of the wooden beams, some of which are more than 150 years old, need to be exchanged. The old wood will be reused as handrails and benches.

Consumables Plants Materials sciences

Old wood useful for more than firewood

Researchers at Fraunhofer WKI developed new technologies to recycle wood without diminishing its quality.

Green algae can switch their ability to adhere to surfaces on and off by means of light. In the presence of blue light, their two fine hairs, called flagella, stick to a surface. Under red light conditions algae don’t attach to surfaces.

Energy Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

Biofilms: green algae only stick in blue light

Green algae cause biofilms that wreak havoc for bioreactors and other structures. Göttingen-based researchers found that red light hinders surface adhesions.

getrocknete Quinoa-Pflanze
Quinoa is a naturally salt-tolerant plant. Special bladder cells on the surface of the leaves absorb salt. The process is controlled by specific gene activity.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Quinoa: role model for salt-tolerance

Special bladder cells on quinoa leaves remove salt from the plant metabolism. Researcher at the University Würzburg identified specific gene activities underlying this mechanism.

Evonik setzt auf die Herstellung pflanzenbasierter Kosmetikwirkstoffe.
Evonik opened a new production site in Tours, France. It will be developed into a centre for plant-based cosmetic active ingredients.

Chemistry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Evonik: new centre for plant-based cosmetics

The speciality chemicals company Evonik is opening a new site in Tours, France. The new production site will focus on plant-based cosmetic active ingredients.

Mit der Gründung nationaler Infostellen soll weltweit die Nutzung nachhaltiger Kunststoffe vorangetrieben werden.

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Research and Markets (2017): Global bioplastics market

With an annual growth rate of 20.85%, the global market for bioplastics will grow from today's US$17 billion to nearly US$44 billion in 2022 over the next five years. 

Schleimige Jagdwaffe: Stummelfüßer fangen ihre Beutetiere mit einem schleimigen Sekret, aus dem sich Polymerfasern bilden, wenn sich die Opfer bewegen.

Chemistry Animals Biotechnology/Systems biology

Slime that turns into deadly fibres

Researcher in Kassel and Potsdam identified shear forces as the mechanism that turns the slimy secretion of velvet worms into stiff polymer fibres, which can even be recycled.

Auch Mauerbienen wie diese Natternkopf-Mauerbiene (Osmia adunca) sind vom Insektensterben betroffen.
Due to their many functions as pollinators or prey, the loss of 75% of insects couls cause "ecological Armageddon".

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

Vanishing insects across Germany

A long-term study by researchers in the Netherlands, the UK and volunteers across Germany found a 75% decrease of flying insects over the last 27 years.

Der Kauf der BASF umfasst Saatgutschäfte für Nutzpflanzen wie Raps, Baumwolle und Soja. Sie sollen das Pflanzenschutzgeschäft der BASF strategisch ergänzen.
BASF has since signed an agreement to acquire significant parts of Bayer’s seed and non-selective herbicide businesses for approximately €5.9 billion.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

BASF signs billion-euro deal with Bayer

BASF has signed an agreement for €5.9 billion to acquire significant parts of Bayer’s seed and non-selective herbicide businesses.  

Mit Holzkohle rückt als alternativer Bodendünger zunehmend in den Fokus der Forschung.
Biochar can be used as an eco-fiendly fertiliser, albeit a not very efficient one. Co-composting it with manure, however, creates an organic coating that improves and speeds up its fertiliser qualities.

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

Manure coating improves biochar's fertiliser qualities

Geomicrobiologists from the University of Tübingen demonstrate that co-composting of mixed manure and biochar creates an organic coating, which improves its fertiliser properties.

Mooszellen in einem Erlenmeyerkolben
Moss cells in an Erlenmeyer-flask

Chemistry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Green chemicals from moss

A new EU project headed by Ralf Reski in Freiburg will promote the environmentally friendly production of specialty chemicals from genetically modified moss.

Eine wichtige Quelle für Feinstaub: Landwirtschaftliche Ammoniakemissionen aus Düngung und Viehzucht.
A major contribution to air pollution: agricultural ammonia emissions from manure and fertilizers.

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Fewer ammonia emissions could save lives

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz calculated that reducing agricultural ammonia emissions from manure and fertilizers decreases air pollution and reduces mortality.

The new bioleaching method for metal recovery takes place within the BioXtractor. The system is built to be easily dis- and reassembled and can be explored by enterprises interested in a test phase prior to joint further development.

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Microbes isolate precious metals in pilot plant

The German industrial biotech company Brain AG has developed a new bio-leaching method to isolate and retain metals by breaking down waste and ore.

Patrick Hirsch and his colleagues are creating new composite materials made of wood and plastics. The researchers use beech wood as a raw material for their product, which can be used for car interiors or children’s toys, among others.

Automobile Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Bioplastics made with wood fibres

Researchers in Halle and Potsdam are experimenting with compsite-materials made of beech fibres and bioplastics.