The ARC Research Hub for Engineering Plants to Replace Fossil Carbon will engineer new crops and create new knowledge to tackle sustainability challenges related to carbon products.
The Hub aims to develop new plant genotypes that enable cost-efficient, sustainable production of sugars from crop ‘waste’ (plant biomass) as a substrate for renewable carbon products, including jet fuel and high value products. It will build on recent advances in the genomics, gene editing and mutagenesis of key plants to modify cell wall composition. The Hub also aims to better understand, and improve, processing of plant feedstock to biofuel precursors and high value carbon products.
Research at the ARC Research Hub is split into four themes, each approaching different aspects of the Hub’s research.