Developing Miscanthus: a zero carbon crop
To meet climate targets the UK will need to rely on a variety of energy sources, including energy produced from burning biomass crops. Researchers at the Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University, with funding from BBSRC, have developed new hybrids of the biomass crop Miscanthus that will enable growers to scale-up production to meet the UK’s future biomass energy production needs.
This film follows the project from research and initial seed expeditions to commercialisation and miscanthus genome sequencing.
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