GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Sweet sorghum is not just for breakfast anymore. Although sorghum is a source for table syrup, scientists see a future in which we convert sorghum to biofuel, rather than relying on fossil fuel. That potential just grew ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASCutline at bottom. Click here for high resolution image. A University of Florida-led research team has been selected to participate in a five-year, $125 million energy project involving the United States and India, U.S. Department of Energy ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, UF/IFASImage of synthesized lignin nanotubes GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the first time, University of Florida researchers have developed plant-based technology that could reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil and may also help treat cancer. Known ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Conservation, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFECaption at bottom. Click here for high-resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Many building dedications feature a ribbon-cutting; this one included a front-end loader ceremoniously dumping a scoopful of pulverized sugarcane stalks. It was ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFECutline at bottom. Click here for high-resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida-led research team has won a four-year, $5.4 million federal grant to develop methods of producing energy from a familiar southern crop, ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, UF/IFASCaption at bottom. Click here for high resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A newly discovered gene may be the key to producing fuel ethanol more efficiently from trees, and the University of Florida researchers who identified it have ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, UF/IFASBy: Stu Hutson - (352) 273-3569 Sources: Lonnie Ingram - ingram@ufl.edu, (352) 392-8176 Pratap Pullammanappallil - pcpratap@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1864 x203 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Gasoline prices in the United States have fluctuated ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, UF/IFAS ResearchView Photo In this photo released from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, microbiologist Lonnie Ingram (foreground) explains ethanol production to (left to right) U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, UF Senior Vice ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, UF/IFASBy: Stu Hutson - (352) 273-3569 GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A ceremony to dedicate the new cellulosic ethanol pilot plant on the UF campus will be held this Friday October 10, 2008. The program will begin at 1:00pm in room 141 of Frazier Rogers ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, UF/IFASBy: Stu Hutson - (352) 273-3569 Source: Lonnie Ingram - ingram@ufl.edu View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In the last two years, the price of gasoline in the U.S. has doubled - leaving the nation scrambling for ways to meet fuel needs. With ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Conservation, UF/IFAS, WORK & LIFE