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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Researchers from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia announced via a video release at AgCatalyst conference (when, what day specifically) in Melbourne Park Function Centre, Victoria, Australia they were working to create modified cotton plant to produce cotton fabric. This fabric was fully biodegradable like original cotton, and wouldn’t need ironing.
The modifications would allow the cotton plant to produce biodegradable environmentally friendly fabric which wrinkled less than traditional cotton, thus requiring less ironing, the scientists said. This would be similar to the reportedly environmentally unfriendlier synthetic fabric made of petrochemicals.
The modifications involved
Dr MacMillan, head of the research group at CSIRO, said “We use special molecular tools called synthetic biology tools that are inspired by nature and exist in nature to produce the next generation of cotton” (clarify what this all means)
(“bioengineering techniques are being used to incorporate stretchy protein into the cell wall of cotton to make more it elastic” (Cotton Grower))
(What effort would these changes need to be put to mass production)
(How much does it cost)
The Cotton Seed Distributors company had also partnered in this research.
Microplastics from which synthetic clothes were made were a significant source of ocean pollution.