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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Minnesota, United States
Genetically engineering plants is a time-intensive process. Methods currently
used to deliver genetic changes are imprecise, so it's often necessary to
generate thousands of plants to find one that happens to have the desired
alteration....
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Location: Carnegie, United States
The single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii generates hydrogen by
fermentation under low oxygen conditions. Cells in photo are stained with
fluorescent dyes. Purple indicates DNA, green indicates flagella.
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts
poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to
a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological...
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Location: University of California, Merced, United States
Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Recent research by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore...
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Location: Ohio State University, United States
As sea levels rise, coastal communities could lose up to 50 percent more of their fresh water supplies than previously thought, according to a new study from
Ohio State University.
Hydrologists...
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Location: Department of Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, United States
Researchers have been studying fuels from biomass for years. Now, with growing dependency on foreign oils and an energy-conscious society emerging, biofuels are fast...
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Location: 677 South Segoe Rd , Madison, WI 53711, United States
The Yam bean originated where the Andes meet the Amazon and is locally grown
in South and Central America, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. It is
produced in three species which are called the Amazonian, Mexican and Andean....
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Location: Virginia Tech ,Biological Systems Engineering,Seitz Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
Foster Agblevor, associate professor of biological systems engineering, is
leading the team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
at Virginia Tech developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert
poultry...
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Location: Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs,34 Agnew Hall (MC 0409),Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
Virginia Tech has been researching and implementing integrated pest management for more than a quarter century.
Dinner plates and wallets reflect the triumphs and trials faced by food-growers and their crops from across the globe.
In...
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Location: 225 South University Street,,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2093, United States
Tiny pores within plant cells may hold
promise for green fuels. Researchers have discovered that particles from
cornstalks undergo previously unknown structural changes when processed to
produce ethanol, an insight they said will help establish...
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Location: 6195 Etcheverry Hall # 1740 ,University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
510/642-1338 ,Fax 510/642-6163 , United States
AgLinx Solutions is a
group of engineers and designers committed to developing wireless solutions for
precision agriculture in the wine industry.
This research
focus is to enable forms of vineyard monitoring for agricultural...
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