Allocation of U.S. Biomass Production to Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel and Exports

Biomass and Organic Waste Conversion to Food, Feed, Fuel, Fertilizer, Energy and Commodity Products

Sequence-based breeding; application to unravel traits of the 6F crops: food, feed, fiber, flowers, fuel and fun

The genomes of the world’s most important crop species differ enormously in size, ploidy levels, repeat composition and germplasm diversity, posing a tremendous challenge to utilize them for breeding and trait improvement. Keygene’s Crop Genome Center addresses this challenge by developing and applying sequence-based methodologies to advance building genome assemblies and elucidating genetic di...

Corn ethanol production, food exports, and indirect land use change.

The approximately 100 million tonne per year increase in the use of corn to produce ethanol in the U.S. over the past 10 years, and projections of greater future use, have raised concerns that reduced exports of corn (and other agricultural products) and higher commodity prices would lead to land-use changes and, consequently, negative environmental impacts in other countries. The concerns have...

On a generic approach to the safety assessment of micro-organisms used in feed/food and feed/food production

US Firm Exports and Intellectual Property Rights

How do intellectual property rights (IPR) policies a¤ect international trade? In this paper we consider two of the central results from the model of Lin (2013) (i) that IPR reforms should expand the range of goods exported to a country through the extensive margin of trade and (ii) …rms with more newly developed products should be more sensitive to IPR policies than other innovative …rms. Build...