Cash crop
A grant from the U.S. Department of Energy was awarded to University of Nevada, Reno biochemistry professor John Cushman. The grant is for $14.3 million and will allow for Cushman and the other members of his research team, including Anne Borland from Newcastle University, James Hartwell from the University of Liverpool and Xiaohan Yang from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to pursue research on crops used for biofuel. According to a statement, the team will “develop novel technologies to redesign bioenergy crops to grow on economically marginal agricultural lands and produce yields of biomass that can readily be converted to biofuels.”
The grant will last for five years, with $7.6 million going to UNR and the rest distributed to other institutions. Cushman is the team leader.
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