However, while current leading bioplastics, such as PLA, primarily use feed grains as a plant resource, the possibility of future food shortages has emphasized the importance of using non-edible plant resources to produce bioplastics.
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The use of cellulose and cardanol, both plant resources, as the plastic's primary components produces a plastic that features a high plant component ratio of more than 70%.
ENGADGET: NEC builds a better bioplastic from plant stems and cashew nut shells
In recent years, bioplastics composed from plant resources gathered greater attention as an effective measure to reduce the depletion of petroleum resources and alleviate global warming.
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As part of an agreement signed this week with the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, the university will train scientists from developing countries in in-vitro and cryogenic techniques.
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Erika Perales, a former human-resources manager at a manufacturing plant in Garden Grove, Calif.
The exemption would enable some researchers and plant breeders to expend more of their resources on actual work rather than on jumping through gratuitous regulatory hoops.
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Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States.
But she says the agency simply doesn't have the resources to observe everything that might go wrong at a plant.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is involved in projects to remove the plant from areas Special Scientific interest (SSi) such as at Cors Llyferin at Abersoch Golf club.
Agriculture enjoys neither the profitability nor the investor interest of medicine, so the resources brought to bear on the Human Genome Project are scarce in plant genetics.
Garden centers, nurseries, local native plant societies, county extension service offices, books and the Internet can all be great resources for researching the best, most water-efficient plants.
Evolution Resources wants to jump into the hot business of celluosic ethanol--converting otherwise useless plant material into fuel.
Environmentalists, like John Walke of Natural Resources Defense Council, say the Bush administration is abandoning an essential tool to force those plant to clean up fast.
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