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Forscher haben das Gen identifiziert, das in Apfelbäumen steuert, wann sich die Blüten entwickeln.
Researchers have identified the gene that controls when flowers develop in apple trees.

Agriculture and forestry Plants Plant breeding research

Making apple trees fit for climate change

Researchers have identified a gene that plants use to control bud dormancy. This could help prevent frost damage to the flower in the future.

Das neue Bewertungstool ist einfach zu bedienen und prüft Verpackungen auf ihre Recyclingfähigkeit.
The new evaluation tool is easy to use and checks packaging for recyclability.

Chemistry Plants Bioökonomie mitgestalten

Software evaluates packaging recycling

Whether plastic, paper or tinplate - a program from Henkel determines how easily materials can be recycled.

Daniela Thrän

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Understanding the bioeconomy system

The Leipzig Helmholtz researcher Daniela Thrän systematically examines Germany's path to bioeconomy. As co-author of the first Bioeconomy Monitoring, she knows the strengths and weaknesses of bio-based change – especially with regard to bioenergy systems.

Mushlabs wants to produce vegan burgers and sausages from the thread-like root network of mushrooms.

Food Fungi Biotechnology/Systems biology

Sausage and burgers made of mushroom mycelium

The Berlin start-up Mushlabs uses mycelia to produce meat substitutes. The team has now raised €8.7 million for further development.

From July 2021, plastic drinking straws may no longer be produced.

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Bundestag votes for ban on single-use plastics

The end for plastic drinking straws and similar products is approaching: the Bundestag has approved the bill to ban disposable plastic products, including bioplastics.

Die Firma Prolupin gewinnt Proteine aus Lupinen und gehört zu den ersten Unternehmen, in die der ECBF investiert.
The company Prolupin extracts proteins from lupins and is one of the first companies in which the ECBF is investing.

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European Bioeconomy Fund makes investments

The European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) has raised 82 million euros and has already invested in two companies

Since 2017, Emmanuelle Charpentier is heading the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.

Agriculture and forestry Microorganisms Biodiversity

With gene scissors to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The discoverers of the CRISPR-Cas gene scissors receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020. The tool for genetic modification has revolutionized biomedicine and breeding research.

Sardinien auf einer Folie zum Verkauf

Food Animals Nutritional sciences

University of Queensland (2020): Mikroplastics in seafood

Scientists at the University of Queensland examined a wide variety of seafood for microplastic contamination. The result is alarming.

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"Bioeconomy is the core of sustainability policy"

Sustainability researcher Dirk Messner has been President of the Federal Environment Agency since January of this year. In an interview he talks about the opportunities and challenges on the way to a bio-based economy, the corona pandemic and the value of global networking.

bioökonomie.de in neuem Look

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New design for bioökonomie.de

The information portal bioökonomie.de has a new look! Cleaner, more visual and technically up-to-date – our website has been given a new, elegant design.

Sportschuhe auf einer Wiese
This year, Adidas will launch shoes that look like leather shoes, but are made from mushroom mycelium.

Textiles Fungi Biotechnology/Systems biology

Mushroom threads as a leather substitute

In 2021, the sporting goods manufacturer Adidas will launch shoes using a fabric made of mushroom threads instead of leather.

Biochemiker Peter H. Seeberger in seinem Potsdamer Labor
Biochemist Peter Seebeger has developed a process with which the antimalarial agent artemisinin can be produced quickly, sustainably and cheaply in the laboratory.

Chemistry Plants Chemistry

Chemistry prize for sustainable drug production

Potsdam biochemist Peter Seeberger has been awarded the International Green Chemistry Prize for the production of a particularly sustainable and cost-effective antimalarial agent.

Eine Filmkamera vor einer Wand mit dem GFFA-Logo
For the first time, the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture is held completely digitally.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

GFFA: World Food in Times of Pandemic and Climate Change

At the virtual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), experts from all over the world are currently discussing resilient food systems in times of pandemic and climate change.

Modepuppen mit verschiedenen Kleidungsstücken von Desiginern bei der Berlin Fashion Week im Kraftwerk in berlin Mitte.
The digital edition of Berlin Fashion Week took place at Kraftwerk in Mitte.

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Berlin Fashion Week: Showcase for sustainable fashion

Berlin Fashion Week is focusing more than ever on sustainability by launching several new formats for "green fashion".  

Stroh
Straw as a more popular building material is the goal of one of the projects now being funded in the university competition.

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Ten more teams win university competition

The projects of the second funding round in the extended Science Year of the Bioeconomy have been determined.

Bioökonomie-Ausstellung

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Bioeconomy Exhibition

The bioeconomy has rapidly developed in recent years. What has been accomplished in the last five years alone is truly impressive: Many bioeconomy products have become bestsellers. Bio-based start-ups have grown into medium-sized companies. And established, traditional industrial companies are integrating bio-based production steps into their existing structures.

Getreidekapuziner Rhyzopertha dominica nach der Behandlung mit Kieselerde
Lesser grain borer Rhyzopertha dominica after treatment with silica.

Agriculture and forestry Animals Agriculture sciences

Protecting grain from insect pests with natural substances

The combination of silica and a parasitic fungus has proven to be an effective long-term protection against insect pests in grain storage.

Wurstscheiben mit Tomaten garniert

Food Animals

Meat substitute

When it comes to producing healthy and sustainable meat substitutes, there are no limits to creativity: Research is currently being conducted to develop an alternative made from apple residues.

Birkenwald
Birch trees have a particularly high content of the sugar xylose, which is the main component of hemicellulose.

Chemistry Plants Chemistry

New plastic is bio-based and recyclable

A research group has developed a new class of sustainable and functionalizable polymers.

Zwei petrischalen mit verschiedenen Cyanobakterien: Neue Bakterienvarianten (rechts im Bild) produzieren deutlich mehr PHB.
The new variants of cyanobacteria produce significantly more PHB.

Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

Bacteria as bioplastic factories

Researchers at the University of Tübingen have modified the metabolic pathway of special cyanobacteria so that they produce large quantities of the natural bioplastic polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB).