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LemnaTec’s ‘cool technology’ at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit USA

Mar 3, 2016

ARPA-E’s Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program is bringing together top experts from different disciplines – agriculture, robotics and data analytics – to rethink...

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David LeBauer, a plant biologist, will act as principal investigator for the supercomputing pipeline and reference sensing platform components.

Illinois receives $1.8M to create data platform for Big Data in plant breeding

Jul 13, 2015

Historically, successful trait selection in plant breeding has involved manual measurement of individual plants. This requirement limits the number of plants that can be evaluated, and the scope of...

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LemnaTec Corp. receives grant for ag phenotyping

Jun 26, 2015

Global plant phenotyping specialist LemnaTec Corporation, issued a news release from Germany that announced it secured the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Award for Advanced Field...

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DOE's ARPA-E funds 6 projects to improve sorghum development

Jun 23, 2015

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $30 million to six projects under its Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture program. TERRA projects...

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Danforth Plant Science Center receives $8m for big data research program to advance development of key bioenergy crop

Jun 18, 2015

St. Louis, MO - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced today it was awarded an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy ARPA–E TERRA program. Funds will be used for research to...

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