Field #Pennycress, a plant in the Brassica family related to #mustards and #cabbages, is usually considered a #weed. But one feature made it less of a wallflower: its very high #OilContent, about 50% higher than that of a #soybean. After close to a decade of controlled breeding and #GeneSplicing, the onetime weed is being cultivated as a source for #RenewableDiesel or sustainable #AviationFuel.

What Was Once a Weed Could Fuel #JetEngines
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biofuel-renewable-diesel-cover-crops-2077c807?mod=RSSMSN
msn link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/what-was-once-a-weed-could-fuel-jet-engines/ar-AA1f12g5?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Paul Berg!

Paul Berg was a biologist whose experiments helped shape our understanding of DNA, specifically recombinant-DNA- the ability to split DNA and analyse it in parts.

Berg's postdoctoral work was around the conversion of food into simpler molecules used to build up cells. Later, he became the first scientist to splice DNA.

His work in gene splicing is foundational in our ability to do DNA research today, and provided early foundational work for gene therapies, which are now being used to treat some illnesses.

For his achievement in DNA, Berg won several prestigious awards and acknowledgements, including one half the Nobel Prize in 1980, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a position at the American Philosophical Society, and others.

#JewOfTheDay #scientist #DNA #biology #GeneSplicing #NobelPrize #Jewdiverse