Qantas uses mustard seeds in first ever biofuel flight between Australia and US

Blended fuel powers 15-hour Boeing Dreamliner 787-9 flight between LA and Melbourne, reducing carbon emissions by 7%

A Qantas plane powered partly by mustard seeds has become the world's first biofuel flight between Australia and the United States, after landing in Melbourne on Tuesday.

The 15-hour flight used a blended fuel that was 10% derived from the brassica carinata, an industrial type of mustard seed that functions as a fallow crop - meaning it can be grown by farmers in between regular crop cycles.