Source: Chris Bennett, AGWEB, 4/6/21


Will plastic production prosper on U.S. farmland in the near future? Could a farmer plant an engineered seed and harvest a plastic polymer? Skeptics beware, the proposition around growing a genuinely natural biodegradable plastic may be tied to a technology whose time has arrived. On Jan. 19, 2021, Yield10 Bioscience pulled back the crop curtain on two prototype lines of camelina genetically engineered to produce PHA bioplastic within seed. PHAs are ubiquitous in nature and entirely biodegradable, greatly enhancing the appeal of agriculturally-produced plastic...

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