The New Tobacco Road: a path beyond smoking for America’s traditional cash crop

Tobacco’s been re-thought, re-engineered and re-invented as a platform for sustainable, low-carbon fuels, and green chemicals – who’s doing what, where and how?

From time to time, it’s been said in flowery moments of commercial rapture that such-and-such technology or such-and-such company or…

Full text: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2015/09/09/the-new-tobacco-road-a-path-beyond-smoking-for-americas-traditional-cash-crop/

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Jim Lane

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BiofuelsDigest, 2015-09-09.

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Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
Bioforsk - Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research
Boeing
Borregaard
CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DEINOVE SA
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Murphy-Brown LLC
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Public University of Navarra
REG Life Sciences
Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
SkyNRG
Smithfield Foods
South African Airways
Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission
Tyton BioEnergy Systems
US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI)

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