AMERICAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP PLANT THAT CAN GROW POLYMERS
February 1st, 2009
BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS from America's University of Missouri have developed a way of actually growing plastics derived from plants.
Although plant-based plastics are not new (for instance - soy-oil based plastics have long been available), actually growing polymers able to be processed directly into plastics is a groundbreaking development.
Researchers used modern molecular techniques to introduce specific bacteria into an Arabidopsis thaliana plant, creating a chemical reaction that made the plant produce an organic polymer called ...
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