Sentences with phrase «converts plant sugars»

Scientists have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel.

The prevailing approach to biofuels production is to convert plant sugars from traditional food crops into ethanol using centuries - old fermentation practices.

Not exact matches

Sprouting tends to convert some of a seed's sugar into vitamin C (to act as an antioxidant for the plant).

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

The efforts aimed at softening this blow to the sugar industry range from shifting to other high yielding crops or planting ornamental flowers, to converting sugar lands into prawn or fish ponds.

The problem is that the sugar is accessible only after it is chemically converted from the tough molecules that make up the walls of plant cells: fibrous cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

Take the Kickstarter project to engineer a plant that glows green, for example, or Keasling's idea of making yeasts that will convert sugars into brand - new beer flavors.

When converting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into a sugar, plants use an organic catalyst called an enzyme; the researchers used a metal compound called tungsten diselenide, which they fashioned into nanosized flakes to maximize the surface area and to expose its reactive edges.

They give plants their green color, convert sunlight to sugars, and carry out a variety of other key chemical processes; they even have their own DNA.

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert energy from the sunlight into chemical energy in the form of sugars.

Mitochondria are described as «power plant» structures because they convert sugars and lipids to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency for all cells.

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

By removing a specific gene, researchers reduced the amount of lignin (stained red) by 36 % in cells in a plant's stem, making it easier to recover sugar - rich parts of the plant that can be converted to automotive

Plants convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into energy in the form of sugars, which they can use to fuel any number of vital life processes.

Dubbed «artificial photosynthesis,» this process mimics how plants convert those same ingredients to energy in the form of sugars.

«The main bottleneck is the pretreatment,» Boerjan explained, referring to the expensive process of cooking or otherwise softening the plant material so the sugars can be extracted and converted.»

Methods: During photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide and convert it into carbon - based sugars needed to grow and live.

They need the sun's energy to carry out photosynthesis, but too much light damages the chloroplasts in plant cells where light, water, and carbon dioxide are converted into sugar and oxygen.

It wouldn't be an understatement to say we owe all the wonders of life to photosynthesis — the ability of plants and certain bacteria to convert CO2 into energy (sugars) and food.

Such a system is also called an artificial leaf or solar - fuel generator because in many ways it mimics the process which plants use to convert sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and fuel (sugars, carbohydrates).

Due to the composition of plant cell walls, plant material is not efficiently broken down or deconstructed to the basic sugars that are converted to biofuels.

«It's similar to a plant leaf that converts carbon dioxide and water with sunlight into sugar molecules and biomass, but it's a nonbiological engineered system.»

Although not shown in the table, the plant foods contain pyridoxine rather than pyridoxal and pyridoxamine, which must be converted to the active forms in the liver, and contain it in varying amounts bound up to sugars, making it unavailable.

TeeChia's nutrients, including its complex carbohydrates, fats, sugars, and protein, are all bound in their natural plant fiber that requires digestion before these nutrients are released and converted to energy.

The algae naturally convert renewable plant sugars to oil in just a few days.

The algae are grown in fermenters, just like the kind for making wine and beer, and naturally convert renewable plant sugars to oil in just a few days.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

Through a process known as photosynthesis, most plants use the energy in sunlight to convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, plus water, into simple sugars, which are used as building blocks and form the main structural components.

Visible light converts to chemical energy, not heat energy in the creation of sugars in photosynthesis; the plant using the energy from visible light to convert carbon dioxide and water to sugar.

Photosynthesis is the plant using visible energy to convert to chemical energy, not heat energy, but sugars, out of carbon dioxide and water.

SunOpta's patented pretreatment and hydrolysis technology will prep and convert sugar cane bagasse and possibly hard wood waste to ethanol at a plant in Jennings, Louisiana.

Here's a promising project: Brazilian and Italian entrepreneurs are investing $ 114 million in a plan to convert bagasse, a waste product from sugar cane, into pellets that can be burned as fuel at your average, run - of - the - mill coal plant.

In other words, cellulosic conversion technology could easily drive deforestation, especially in the tropics where converting natural systems to fuel would be easier than planting potential fuel - crops like oil palm, sugar cane, soybeans, or corn.

The oxygen is released as waste and the protons and electrons are used to convert carbon dioxide into the carbohydrate sugars that plants use for energy.