{"id":243496,"date":"2026-01-21T01:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:16:20","slug":"let-it-grow-panasonics-plant-formula-boosts-co2-absorption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243496\/","title":{"rendered":"Let it grow: Panasonic&#8217;s plant formula boosts CO2 absorption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/biotechnology\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biotechnology<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Novitek stimulant shown to boost yields, with carbon credit business in sight<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260116N Bean grower\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A farmer in Tamba, Japan, holds\u00a0two\u00a0black soybean plants, the one on the left was treated with Novitek. (Photo by Yuki Misumi)<\/p>\n<p>YUKI MISUMI<\/p>\n<p>January 17, 2026 08:14 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">OSAKA &#8212; Panasonic Holdings will release as soon as this year a plant growth formula that would lead to the plants absorbing more carbon dioxide from the air, with an eye on creating a business model involving carbon credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biotechnology Novitek stimulant shown to boost yields, with carbon credit business in sight A farmer in Tamba, Japan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[142755,49395,150,273,29188,17240,702,29309,111,139,69,142754,4885,147],"class_list":["post-243496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-absorption","tag-boosts","tag-co2","tag-environment","tag-formula","tag-grow","tag-it","tag-let","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-panasonics","tag-plant","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}