Don’t Smoke That Fuel: ARPA-E funds energy research in tobacco, turpentines, camelina (Biofuels Digest)
Arcadia Biosciences was one of 10 to be awarded a biofuels-related grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The grant "will modify a number of genes involved in oil biosynthesis to induce grasses to produce vegetable oil."
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Reducing Nitrogen
Usage
Arcadia Biosciences has conducted field trials in five growing seasons. In each field trial, Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) canola demonstrated that it can achieve high yields using significantly less nitrogen fertilizer than conventional varieties. In the chart above, note that NUE canola yielded 2800 lb/ac using two-thirds less nitrogen fertilizer than the conventional variety needed to generate the same yield.