{"id":15943,"date":"2012-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120802-03n"},"modified":"2012-08-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T22:00:00","slug":"biologist-receives-1-5-million-to-study-potential-biofuel-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biologist-receives-1-5-million-to-study-potential-biofuel-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologist Receives $1.5 Million to Study Potential Biofuel Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A biologist at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study native prairie grasses as potential sources of biofuel.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The project, which is being led by <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.biosci.utexas.edu\/juenger_lab\/?q=people\/thomas-juenger\" >Tom Juenger<\/a>, is looking in particular at &#8220;panicgrass,&#8221; which is native to Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. The grass is useful as a proxy for studying the genetics and physiology of switchgrass, one of the most likely sources of biofuel in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soyatech.com\/news_story.php?id=28277\" >www.soyatech.com\/news_story.php?id=28277<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: Panicum hallii, Panicum virgatum, bioenergy, climate change, bioenergy crops<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A biologist at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study native<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[1144,3012,8400,11236],"class_list":["post-15943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-national-science-foundation-usa","supplier-university-of-texas","supplier-usda","supplier-u-s-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}