Chinese government announces “National biomass energy program”

A new Environmental Protection Law will be implemented nationwide from 2015 onward and promotes, among other items, the production and use of clean energy which will help to encourage the development of a biomass energy industry. Annual raw materials are 470 million t...

CAS group cures wheat fungal infection by genome editing

The group of Caixia GAO at the CAS Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology has succeeded to delete genes from wheat which encode proteins that repress defences against powdery mildew infection. TALEN and CRISPR techniques wer used to specifically knock out all...