New uses, new products, new markets link agriculture's past and future

摘要

Ask Irshad Ahmed about his vision for the future, and he describes one that sounds much like the past. Instead of a world powered by petrochemicals, he says, plant matter of all kinds will be in nearly everything people use and touch. ansformed grasses, grains, bushes and trees will power cars and tactories, hold houses together and warm toes with "milkweed down" bedding.