Apr

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Bacteria That Release Oil as They Grow

April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment

Bacteria That Release Oil as They Grow Xinyao Liu and Professor Roy Curtiss at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have coaxed photosynthetic microbes to secrete oil so bypassing energy and cost barriers that have hampered green biofuel production.  The results appeared March 29,2010 in the advanced online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy […]

Mar

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A Breakthrough In Biomass Production

March 3, 2010 | 4 Comments

Stanford University molecular biologist Sharon Long says, “We have discovered a new biological process, by which leguminous plants control behavior of symbiotic bacteria. These plants have a specialized protein processing system that generates specific protein signals. These were hitherto unknown, but it turns out they are critical to cause nitrogen fixation.”  This is a critical […]

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