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With Theodoric Meyer and Daniel Lippman
HOW GOP POPULISM COULD PLAY OUT FOR BIG BUSINESS: Arkansas Sen.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, blasting the business lobby in an interview on the “Hugh Hewitt Show” as a “a front service for woke corporations” while asserting that the business lobby had “purged … real Republicans” in its top leadership and lost its influence with the party by endorsing Democrats, per
Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
Pivot Bio Completes State-of-the-Art Lab and Offices
Pivot BioMarch 9, 2021 GMT
BERKELEY, CA, March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Pivot Bio recently completed a major expansion of its Berkeley, Cal., lab and offices to support its accelerated growth plans, advance the company’s science, and deliver its nitrogen-producing microbial products to U.S. farmers faster. MAI Construction, based in San Jose, Cal., served as the general contractor to create this state-of-the art facility.
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“With the technical expertise of our partners at MAI, we created a best-in-class facility that will put Pivot Bio at the forefront of a growing bioeconomy,” said Karsten Temme, Ph.D., Pivot Bio CEO and co-founder. “The renovated and expanded space supports our team to do their best work in the best possible environment as we strive to develop regenerative agriculture solutions to help farmer
2), a $50 million collaboration between the Wells Fargo Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), today announced the four newest winners of its Channel Partner Awards. Channel Partner Awards are presented twice annually to members of IN
2’s network of cleantech accelerator and incubator programs across the United States to address gaps in the cleantech ecosystem and eliminate the barriers startups face on the road to commercialization. For the current awards round, $350,000 in total funding, IN
2 called for proposals that would provide entrepreneurial opportunities for historically underrepresented individuals in the cleantech industry.
Deepinder Singh, CEO of IN2 portfolio company 75F, demonstrates his company’s technology at an IN2 ecosystem event (Photo: Wells Fargo)
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Benson Hill s new crop accelerator, pictured here in a rendering, is expected to open by the end of the year in Creve Coeur.
Benson Hill announced Thursday it’s launching a crop accelerator.
The nearly 50,000-square-foot agriculture research facility will be located near the company’s new headquarters in Creve Coeur.
Benson Hill is partnering with St. Louis-based venture capital firm Lagomaj Capital on the project. It provided more than $20 million to upgrade an existing building.
Benson Hill CEO Matt Crisp said the expansion will help the company grow and test more nutrient-dense soybeans and yellow pea plants at a faster rate.
Researchers develop non-cereal crop to enhance yields and consumer health
Delivering the benefits of agricultural biotechnology to smallholder farmers requires that resources be directed toward staple food crops.
To achieve effect at scale, beneficial traits must be integrated into multiple, elite farmer-preferred varieties with relevance across geographical regions. For the first time, an international team of scientists, led by Narayanan Narayanan, Ph.D., senior research scientist, and Nigel Taylor, Ph.D., associate member and Dorothy J. King Distinguished Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and their collaborators in Nigeria, led by Ihuoma Okwuonu, Ph.D., of the National Root Crops Research Institute, in Umudike, Nigeria and the United States Department of Agriculture, have developed cassava displaying high-level resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) as well as higher levels of iron and zinc.