August 17/Urmond, The Netherlands and Scottsdale, Ariz./Marketwire -- The DSM Innovation Center and NutraCea entered into a joint research and development agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, NutraCea and DSM will share existing patented and proprietary intellectual property and know-how to investigate extraction and modification of high quality vegetable proteins from rice bran.
DSM's Remco van Es, business manager food & feed segment, commented, "After our initial analysis of climate change impacts on global agricultural output in the context of a growing world population, we realized that mining for food components like proteins from vegetable agricultural side streams or biorefineries could play an important role as part of a solution. Furthermore, when it comes to the nitrogen cycle our planet's sustainable limits have already been exceeded by at least 200%. It is only logical to investigate possibilities to harvest protein from currently underdeveloped sources like rice bran."