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Advanced Biotechnology
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Biotech -- Major Points
•Biotechnology is cross-cutting and so will have a
pervasive impact on 21st century energy
technologies
• Greatest impact is expected to be via enhanced
biological productivity and management
efficiency of crop, forest and dedicated biomass
production
• Microbial biodiversity is a vast, untapped
opportunity that will yield currently unforeseen
breakthroughs from the application of genome
and post-genome science to basic
understanding
Domesticated Populus Attributes
• Enhanced photosynthetic efficiency
• Controlled C allocation
• No response to competition
• Reduced height growth
• Less (or more) extensive root system
• Improved wood chemistry
• Pest resistance
• Optimized photoperiod response