Bayer and CAS SIBS partner to improve wheat yields

Within a 2 year research agreement of Bayer with the CAS Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (ZHU Xinquang), a model for photosynthesis in wheat which grows in a canopy that prevents light from penetrating to the lower leaves will be established and...

China will probe plant life on the moon

According to ZHANG Yuanxun, an engineering researcher at the Center of Space Exploration at Chongqing University, China’s Chang’e 4 lunar probe scheduled for 2018 will carry a 3-kilogram “moon-surface mini ecosphere” of 16 cm diameter and 18 cm height....

Biomass to energy: slow advances in China

In 2015, China’s energy generation from renewables was 12 %, of which only 8 % came from biomass. According to the biomass energy development 135 plan” of the National Energy Board just released, by 2020, at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan, biomass will...

Shanghai team develops improved catalyst to convert CO2 to gasoline

A group led by CAS Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering of Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) has developed a bifunctional catalyst composed of In2O3 and zeolite HZSM-5 which converted CO2 to C5+ hydrocarbons (carbon atom-based)...