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.
The technique has enabled Toyota to identify the positions of genes with desired properties such as those for hiking the plant’s sugar content and enhancing its resilience to diseases and to use the data to create better sugar canes, it said.
Toyota and the research center will present the new DNA-analysis technology at a meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan to be held in Kobe from Tuesday.
Toyota has been developing such analysis technologies to hike crop yield and the efficiency of bioethanol production.
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