Groundbreaking polyploid technology solving biofuel feedstock issues

BioFuelGenomics technology has emerged from biotechnology research and provides biofuel plants with the ability to constantly advance the normal growth rates by between 30% and 40% per annum. The technology enables the creation of adaptive polyploids or the spontaneous doubling of a biofuel plant’s genetic material. Polyploidisation is an event that occurs naturally in plants, but until now has not been able to be replicated in the laboratory for plant species.

Polyploids result in
- faster growing trees;
- stronger trees;
- higher yielding trees;
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decrease resources used by polyploided plants; and
- additional carbon absorption.

The BioFuelGenomics adaptation process creates polyploids at will, however the groundbreaking part of this process is the ability to create adaptive polyploids, where entire gene clusters are rearranged in order to cope with specific environmental and physical conditions (genomic architecture). The process involves the DNA profiling of elite mother stock trees and processing them through the tree adaptation process. The end result is a new plant with the same physical characteristics, yet significantly greater genetic material and therefore growth potential than the mother stock. BioFuelGenomics technology does not introduce foreign DNA and as such, adapted trees are not classified as genetically modified organisms.

As an illustration of the benefits over a 20 year period, an existing plantation may complete 3 rotations of trees for harvest. Using BiofuelGenomics technology the rotation can be increased to 5 turns in 20 years and the unit cost of production can be reduced significantly.

If you would like more information go to
www.biofuelgenomics.com or
contact Hamish Macdonald on
+61 407 100 999 or h.macdonald@bfgen.com