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Higher Productivity Crops for Biofuels

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 10 projects that are a part of the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Genetically Enhanced Sorghum and Sugarcane

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the project to convert sugarcane and sorghum into bio-oil crop systems as part of the "Engineering Hydrocarbon Biosynthesis and Storage together with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae" project.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel from Tobacco and Arundo Donax

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the adjustment of the photosynthesis process to create jet biofuel from the waste products as part of the "Synthetic Crop for Direct Drop-in Biofuel Production through Re-routing the Photorespiration Intermediates and Engineering Terpenoid Pathw… more
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: Texas AgriLife Research
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biofuels from Sorghum

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the bioengineering of sorghum plants as part of the "Plant-based Sesquiterpene Biofuels" project.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: Chromatin, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Efficient CO2 Fixation Pathways

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a project to make plants more efficient at capturing energy through an alternative biochemical pathway as part of the "Energy Plant: High Efficiency Photosynthetic Organisms" project.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: University of California, Los Angeles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhanced Carbon Concentration in Camelina

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the the development of a variant of Camelina, a crop that can be used to produce liquid fuels as part of the "Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop" project.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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