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SINGAPORE: A Singapore partnership has developed what it hopes to be an eco-solution to the world's demand for biofuel. The world's first genetically modified Jatropha plant can produce biodiesel faster and better. Plans are in the pipeline to ...
May 14, 2012 at 13:32 | Source: Channel NewsAsia
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and JOil Pte. Ltd. have successfully developed genetically modified jatropha plants with high oleic acid content in seeds. “Oleic acid is the most desirable oil component for the purpose of biofuel, it gives the best ...
May 18, 2012 at 02:07 | Source: Biodiesel Magazine
Around 1,500 people, mostly Sipp investors, are thought to have invested in the firms that, in turn, invested in Jatropha tree plantations in South-east Asia. Ahead of a creditors’ meeting in London yesterday, SGG chairman and founder Gregg Fryett wrote ...
May 24, 2012 at 06:18 | Source: Money Marketing
With a crop improvement program focused on the development and deployment of elite hybrid varieties of Jatropha, SGB now has operations in the United States, Central America, Brazil and India and a global team of more than 70 employees focused ...
May 22, 2012 at 09:55 | Source: msnbc.com
The Serious Fraud Office is currently investigating SGG, holding company for Sustainable Agroenergy and Sustainable Wealth Investments, in connection with biofuel products involving Jatropha tree plantations in South East Asia. On 23 February, the SFO ...
May 22, 2012 at 15:24 | Source: ftadviser.com
Based in Kolkata, FREED converts agricultural wasteland into productive plantations of jatropha. Hailed as a promising source of clean energy, jatropha can grow in marginal soil with little fertilizer, and in the hopes of reducing their dependence on oil ...
May 15, 2012 at 16:30 | Source: Huffington Post
SINGAPORE : This week, a Singapore partnership developed the world's first genetically-modified jatropha plant that can produce biodiesel faster and better. This is just another part of a growing puzzle of initiatives to source for alternative ...
May 17, 2012 at 15:44 | Source: Channel NewsAsia
Singapore's JOil Develops Genetically Modified Jatropha, To Start Field Trials Soon SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Genetically modified jatropha, a non edible oil bearing plant, will likely increase productivity and quality of the crop, reducing the ...
May 14, 2012 at 14:36 | Source: NASDAQ
which writes technical standards for global industries, green-lit the use of renewable fuels in military and commercial aircraft. Components of the renewable fuel were to come from sources such as algae, camelina, jatropha or tallow (animal fats).
May 19, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: autoblog
hectares available for large-scale production of food or other crops, with nearly 1 mn. hectares of marginal land for bio-fuel crops: jatropha, castor, oil palm and pongamia. Last year's overall fuel bill was $1.7 bn., up by 25% on 2009-10; it is likely to ...
May 11, 2012 at 14:04 | Source: AllAfrica.com