APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Human health and nutrition Biofuel feedstocks Food production ADVANTAGES: More economically viable means to produce microalgae Identifies specific genes required for astaxanthin antioxidant synthesis ABSTRACT: Researchers led by Melissa Roth of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Krishna Niyogi of the Berkeley Lab have … [Read more...] about Improving High Value Carotenoid Astaxanthin Production 2017-033
Biomass Feedstocks
Engineering Bioenergy Crops for Integrated Co-bioproduction of Fuels and Key Value Chemicals 2015-138
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Bioenergy crops for biofuels and high value chemicals ADVANTAGES: Eliminates need for herbicides Fewer resources required to grow bioenergy crops Enables bioenergy crops on marginal lands Co-production fuels and high value chemicals improves economic viability ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Joint BioEnergy … [Read more...] about Engineering Bioenergy Crops for Integrated Co-bioproduction of Fuels and Key Value Chemicals 2015-138
Novel Peptide Capable of Stimulating Disease Resistance in Plants 2016-030
APPLICATIONS: Biofuel feedstocks Agriculture ADVANTAGES: Synthetic polypeptide Enhanced disease resistance Robust immune response Target plants can be engineered to constitutively express the receptor and inducibly express the peptide ABSTRACT: Pamela Ronald and researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have discovered raxX, a … [Read more...] about Novel Peptide Capable of Stimulating Disease Resistance in Plants 2016-030
Synthetic Promoters Useful for Expression in Plant Cells 2015-049
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Bioenergy feedstock plants ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have invented a genetically modified plant cell or plant, comprising: (a) (i) one or more nucleic acids each encoding one or more transcription factors (or transcription activators) operatively linked to a first tissue-specific or … [Read more...] about Synthetic Promoters Useful for Expression in Plant Cells 2015-049
Enhancing Latex Production 2017-018
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Bio-based latex production ADVANTAGES: Sustainable Improves upon earlier attempts to increase latex production in guayule ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered latex-producing plants, e.g., guayule plants, to increase latex production. The JBEI invention additionally provides … [Read more...] about Enhancing Latex Production 2017-018