Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
A multi-institutional team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports that it can increase sugarcane’s geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30% and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. They increased oil production in sugarcane stems to about 1.5%.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 18, 2015
As reported in a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal , this successful metabolic engineering and subsequent field production of the modified camelina crop marked the highest accumulation of the unusual oil achieved so far in transgenic plants. hydroxyl, epoxy, etc.). Previously, we identified an acetyltransferase, EaDAcT, from E.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2018
Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of environmentally friendly lubricants. violaceus plant’s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln noticed the February orchid seed oils were unusual.
Green Car Congress
JULY 27, 2012
TransCanada Corporation has received the final of three key permits needed from the US Army Corps of Engineers in order to advance the 485-mile (780-kilometer) Gulf Coast Project. The pipeline will transport growing supplies of US crude oil to meet refinery demand in Texas. Earlier post.)
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AUGUST 1, 2020
MicroBio Engineering, Inc. Alkaline Carbon Capture and Expression-Streamlined Spirulina Cultivated in Air for Reliable Bioproducts, Oil, and Nutrition. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Biomolecular Films for Direct Air Capture of CO 2. Microalgae Commodities Production with a Direct Air Capture Process. Duke University.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
The Urban Air Initiative (UAI), the Energy Future Coalition and the states of Kansas and Nebraska have petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to correct what they call the agency’s flawed models that limit the use of higher blends of ethanol. —Steven Vander Griend.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2016
We have used this system to create and test over 70 genetic parts and devices including: origins of replication, improved broad-host-range plasmids, homology regions for chromosome engineering, antibiotic markers, and functional devices for gene expression.
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