State Council strengthens biogas development plans

In 2013, China produced 15,8 billion cubic meters of biogas, produced from 260 million t of manure, straw and other agricultural waste. According to the State Council’s action plan on energy development issued on June 7, 2014, the potential of biogas is 58 billion...

CAS SIBS Shanghai clones key genes for cotton fiber elongation

The group around Xiaoya CHEN focused on the homeodomain-leucine zipper transcription factor GhHOX3, a component of a regulatory complex involved in cotton fiber cell elongation in which about 90 gene products participate. China Bio news release Dec. 22,...