Manage updates with the Download AppAgrivida teaches biofuel crops to self-destruct
MEDFORD, Mass.--In this densely populated city outside Boston without a farm in sight, agriculture researchers are engineering corn and other crops to become better biofuels.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack last week visited Agrivida, a small company working on a method it hopes will help deliver on the biofuels industry's promise of economically making fuel and chemicals from non-food crops. Vilsack toured the lab of Agrivida to draw attention to federal investments in renewable energy research and development.
Cheaper biofuels will help lower fuel costs and provide economic development in rural areas of the U.S., … Read more
