Over the years I have worked with a variety of power plant engineers. In doing so, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing 1. The highly respected, seasoned old engineer who knows the plant like the “back of ...

To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens the bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with manufacturing systems engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University engineers and plant scientists are joining forces to design better crops that tolerate climate change, produce bigger yields and feed more people. The collaborative ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...

4 April 2005 – Consulting engineers PB Power have been appointed Owner’s Engineer for the 500 MW Keppel Merlimau Cogen power plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. The signing ceremony by Keppel Energy to ...

After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the ...

Lynn Martin (left) and Travis Fettes (right) are plant operators in WMU’s Paper Pilot Plant. Did you know there’s a full pilot-sized paper plant housed at Western Michigan University’s College of ...

"It's really important to look across the plant kingdom because plants have solved so many problems already. Why not read their genomes like a book and try to understand it and solve the problems ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...