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Biofuels -USA - Redesigning Crops to Harvest Fuel
More miles to the bushelNY,USA -The New York Times, byANDREW POLLACK -Sept 8, 2006: -- That is the new mission of crop scientists. In an era of $3-a-gallon gasoline and growing concern about global warming from fossil fuels, seed and biotechnology companies see a big new opportunity in developing corn and other crops tailored for use in ethanol and other biofuels... Syngenta, for instance, hopes in 2008 to begin selling a genetically engineered corn designed to help convert itself into ethanol. Each kernel of this self-processing corn contains an enzyme that must otherwise be added separately at the ethanol factory... Just last week, DuPont and Bunge announced that their existing joint venture to improve soybeans for food would also start designing beans for biodiesel fuel and other industrial uses... (Photo: Brian Ray for The New York Times -- William S. Niebur of DuPont says the very hardy corn needed to make ethanol could force farmers to abandon crop rotation, straining the soil)
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