by | Aug 31, 2021 | News, Sustainability
Land is the planet’s limiting resource. We need land for food, biofuel, feed, ecosystem services, and more. But all land is not equal. Concerns about diverting land under food/feed crops to biofuel feedstocks have led to interest in using marginal land to produce...
by | Jul 4, 2021 | Conversion, Feedstock Production, News
From southeastern Florida to northern Mississippi to the Midwestern Corn Belt, CABBI scientists have struck sustainable oil with sugarcane. But the crop’s potential value to the renewable energy sector earns this particular variety a more appropriate designation:...
by | Apr 5, 2021 | Feedstock Production, Research Profiles
In an incredible collaboration between scientists across the country, CABBI is developing a new source of sustainable oil: a genetically altered variant of sugarcane dubbed “oilcane.” Working with an organism as genetically complex as sugarcane is no easy feat,...
by | Feb 22, 2021 | News, Sustainability
Researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) found that transitioning land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to bioenergy agriculture can be advantageous for American landowners, the government, and the...
by | Feb 9, 2021 | News, Sustainability
As most of us learned in school, plants use sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. But nature’s “factories” don’t just provide us with food — they also generate insights into how ecosystems...
