{"id":194425,"date":"2024-08-12T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-genetically-engineered-wood-can-store-carbon-and-reduce-emissions"},"modified":"2024-08-12T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:26:18","slug":"new-genetically-engineered-wood-can-store-carbon-and-reduce-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-genetically-engineered-wood-can-store-carbon-and-reduce-emissions","title":{"rendered":"New genetically engineered wood can store carbon and reduce emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-genetically-engineered-wood-can-store-carbon-and-reduce-emissions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy-intensive processing. Made from traditional wood, engineered wood is often seen as a renewable replacement for traditional building materials like steel, cement, glass and plastic. It also has the potential to store carbon for a longer time than traditional wood because it can resist deterioration, making it useful in efforts to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>But the hurdle to true sustainability in engineered wood is that it requires processing with volatile chemicals and a significant amount of energy, and produces considerable waste. The researchers edited one gene in live poplar trees, which then grew wood ready for engineering without processing.<\/p>\n<p>The research was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/matter\/fulltext\/S2590-2385(24)00396-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> online on August 12, 2024, in the Journal Matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy-intensive processing. Made from traditional wood, engineered wood is often seen as a renewable replacement for traditional building materials like steel, cement, glass and plastic. It also has the potential to store carbon for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,412,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}