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| PGgRc Newsletter #1 |
| Thursday, March 11, 2010 (465 reads) |
This is our first newsletter.We intend to send them out periodically, communicating to our stakeholders what our programme is about and what progress has been made. We hope you find this a quick read,
informative and useful in identifying what New Zealand farmers are doing to make themselves
more competitive in the emerging carbon conscious world.
Feel free to follow up on any enquires by contacting us.
Mark Aspin – Consortium Manager
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| PGgRc genetic breakthrough may help reduce greenhouse gas emissions |
| Friday, January 29, 2010 (564 reads) |
Cows, sheep and other ruminant animals produce their methane emissions because of microbes that live in their digestive systems, and the PGgRc funded team has successfully mapped the genetic information of one of the microbes responsible. This discovery will accelerate work altering the methane generation of the organism through vaccine and pharmo-medical interventions.The findings have been published today in noted science journal PLOS One and this makes this ground-breaking research available to the wider scientific community. |
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| New Zealand leads world breakthrough in methane research |
| Monday, June 02, 2008 (4467 reads) |
In a world first, New Zealand scientists have mapped the genetic sequence of a microbe, which produces methane from the rumen of cattle and sheep.
With this understanding, the team of Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium scientists are now looking at ways of reducing the amount of methane farm animals produce – which in New Zealand accounts for 32 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| PGgRc seeking new opportunities |
| Monday, September 17, 2007 (2498 reads) |
PGgRc has the science to establish if a mitigation solution will work. We want to work with any parties who believe that they have the evidence for a solution. |
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