Toyota's DNA analysis tech to boost sugar-cane biofuel output

JapanToday.com
Tuesday 07th December, 04:56 AM JST

TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp said Monday the company has developed a technology to analyze the DNA of plants to shorten the time needed to improve varieties of sugar cane with an eye to boosting bioethanol production.

The technology—developed with the National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region—has shortened the time needed to improve varieties of sugar canes to some four years, about half the time needed under conventional technologies, Toyota said in a statement.

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