Palm oil articles
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Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed
The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick—is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many studies have shown the loss of biodiversity when rainforests are converted to oil palm plantations, researchers at the University of Massachusetts of Amherst are the first to show far-reaching and wide-ranging disturbances to the watersheds in which such plantations occur.
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CBG Oils – The Best 7 CBG Oil Brands to Buy Online in 2024
If you've heard whispers about the remarkable benefits of CBG, you're in for a treat. CBG, short for cannabigerol, is a cannabinoid found in the cannabis plant renowned for its potential therapeutic properties.
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Discovery of mechanism plants use to change seed oil could impact industrial, food oils
Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of oil biosynthesis and found a way to genetically engineer a type of test plant to more efficiently produce different kinds of seed oil that it otherwise wouldn't make.