Sentences with phrase «important as a biofuel»

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The caterpillars of snout moths are economically important worldwide as pests of planted crops for food or biofuel, of forest trees, and of stored products such as wheat and nuts.»

With genetically engineered microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, playing an increasing role in the green chemistry production of valuable chemical products including therapeutic drugs, advanced biofuels and biodegradable plastics from renewables, Cas9 is emerging as an important genome - editing tool for practitioners of synthetic biology.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

For example, the RSF1010 origin - derived pKT plasmids developed here are able to replicate in a wide range of Gram - negative bacteria (e.g., Enterococci) as well as the phylogenetically distant cyanobacteria, which are also important hosts of interest for biofuels production [10].

«The long - term goal is to understand the stability and targeting mechanisms important to synthetic biology applications involving, for example, chemical sensing between living cells and electronic detectors as well as the development of biofuel cells.»

The 2015 Survey of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon Biofuels Producers provides an inventory of the domestic advanced biofuels production industry as of the end of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →

This new information contributes to understanding protein stability and electron transfer between cells and minerals, which is important for applications in synthetic biology such as biofuel production.

While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet.

Currently, only a small share of such residues is available for energy generation but, as bioenergy production increases, agricultural residues may become more important biofuel feedstocks.

Use of biofuels such as ethanol or biodiesel could also play an important role in saving fossil fuels.

Advanced biofuels (such as cellulosic ethanol) have made important progress in recent years but are not yet competitive with petroleum products.

Which is all fine and good (as well as being correct in that people are increasingly seeing a fuller picture of the impacts of biofuels on the environment and on people, and are seeing sustaianability criteria as more important than ever), but D1 is hardly out of the woods yet.