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Kickoff-Event GFFA 2022
Due to the pandemic, the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture will also be held completely digitally in 2022.

Food unspecific Agriculture sciences

GFFA 2022: Focus on soil and land use

Agricultural and food policy experts will discuss how soils can be better protected and used more sustainably at the 14th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) this week.

Anne Lamp Gründerin von Traceless Materials

Chemistry Waste Chemistry

"Our biomaterial can replace hard-to-recycle plastic"

With her Hamburg-based start-up Traceless Materials, Anne Lamp wants to launch an innovative biomaterial that is fully compostable.

Holzstapel auf Wiese vorm Wald
Wood is one of the most important resources of the bioeconomy.

Agriculture and forestry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Alliances sought for wood bioeconomy

A new call for proposals has been launched as part of the "Bioeconomy in the North" funding initiative. It calls for collaborations that research and develop new wood-based biorefinery concepts and products.

Straßenansicht des Brain-Sitzes in Zwingenberg
The Zwingenberg-based BRAIN Group acquires a 62% stake in the Dutch company Breatec.

Food unspecific Biotechnology/Systems biology

Brain Biotech acquires Breatec and Comix

The Dutch specialist for functional food ingredients is to expand the enzyme portfolio of the German biotechnology group.

Spühlmittel beim Abwasch
Evonik strengthens market presence in biosurfactant production.

Chemistry unspecific Chemistry

Evonik expands biosurfactant production

The Essen-based specialty chemicals group wants to completely ban petroleum-based ingredients from its laundry and cleaning products by 2030 and replace them with biodegradable raw materials instead.

veganer Käse
The start-up Formo is currently working on animal-free production of fresh cheeses such as mozzarella or ricotta.

Food Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

BRAIN: Alliance with producers of vegan cheese

The Zwingenberg-based biotechnology company BRAIN is cooperating with the Berlin-based food tech start-up Formo to advance the fermentative production of animal-free milk proteins.

Spinnennetz mit Tautropfen
Researchers have optimized the natural product spider silk to make it even more suitable for medical applications.

Pharmaceutical industry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

Spider silk further developed for medical purposes

Fibers with two differently functionalized sides are intended to heal damaged nerve and muscle strands more quickly.

Maisfeld

Agriculture and forestry Plants unspecific

University of Bonn and Breakthrough-Institut (2022): Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation

A new study by the University of Bonn and the Breakthrough Institute (USA) shows that genetically modified plants could have a positive impact on the environment and especially on the climate.

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WWF and AWI (2022): Impacts of plastic pollution in the oceans on marine species, biodiversity and ecosystems

The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has warned of dramatic effects of the increasing plastic waste in the oceans. It refers to a study by the Alfred Wegener Institute.

Schwarze Soldatenfliege
Since 2019, a research team at FBN has been exploring the black soldier fly as an alternative high-quality protein source.

Food Waste Agriculture sciences

Optimal feeding black soldier flies

A research team is investigating which residues are used as food to turn fly larvae into particularly valuable protein feed.

Spargel in Papierhülle
Asparagus peels usually end up in the trash. But they could soon be a basic material for bioplastics.

Chemistry Waste Chemistry

Using asparagus peels for bioplastics

With a view to a circular bioeconomy, researchers at IfBB are investigating whether asparagus peels are suitable as fillers for biocomposites.

Gebäude von c-Lecta in Leipzig
The c-LEcta GmbH specializes in enzymes.

Food Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

Irish Kerry Group acquires enzyme specialist c-LEcta

A big hit in the German biotechnology sector: The Leipzig-based enzyme manufacturer c-LEcta is acquired by the Irish group Kerry for 137 million euros.

Ein Fluoreszenzfarbstoff macht die bäumchenförmigen Arbuskeln eines arbuskulären Mykorrhizapilzes in einer Wurzel gut sichtbar.
A fluorescent dye makes the tree-like arbuscules of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in a root clearly visible.

Agriculture and forestry Plants Plant breeding research

How rice plants regulate their root fungal network

Munich plant researchers have discovered a key protein that controls phosphate uptake through symbiosis with fungi.

Monitoring reveals how sustainable Germany's bioeconomy is

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Bioeconomy monitoring enters next phase

How sustainable is the bioeconomy in Germany? The monitoring consortium SYMOBIO 2.0, which has now been launched, screens relevant data, analyzes and evaluates it.

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European bioeconomy fund raises 300 million euros

Initially targeting the EUR 250 million mark, the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) has come out of fundraising oversubscribed thanks to newly acquired investors.

Spühlmittel beim Abwasch
Biosurfactants are designed to enable sustainable and environmentally friendly cleaning and care products.

unspecific unspecific Chemistry

Estimating the environmental impact of new bio-products

A combined method of simulation and experiment predicts the ecotoxicity of bioeconomy products.

Mikroskopische Aufnahme des Bakteriums Vibrio natriegens
The marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens could soon be an important organism for biotechnology.

Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

Marine microbe as cell factory

A research team is developing a biotechnological process to produce succinic acid based on the bacterium Vibrio natriegens.

Carsten Schulz, Direktor, Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Individualisierte und Zellbasierte Medizintechnik IMTE, Außenstelle Aquakulturforschung Büsum

Food Animals Agriculture sciences

"Aquatic technologies are key to a healthy diet"

Under the umbrella of Fraunhofer IMTE, the team led by Carsten Schulz from the Society for Marine Aquaculture (GMA) will further develop the potential of the Blue Bioeconomy in the future.

Processing wood in biogas plants has long been problematic. That could soon change.

Energy Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Poplar wood for the biogas plant

Researchers have developed an innovative process that enables the use of chips from poplar wood for biomethane and peat substitution.

Kolorierte Rasterelektronenmikroskopaufnahme von Pseudomonas-Bakterien, beim Eindringen in eine Spaltöffnung eines Pflanzenblatts
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Pseudomonas bacteria, entering a stomata of a plant leaf.

Agriculture and forestry Microorganisms Agriculture sciences

Bacterial booster for the plant immune response

Benign Pseudomonas strains ensure that their pathogenic relatives do not cause any damage in plants, as researchers from Tübingen have discovered.