Sentences with phrase «in duckweed»

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Scientists in Ireland are working on a process to produce duckweed for use in animal feed by capturing essential nutrients in wastewater from dairy processing plants.

According to Dr. Ingrid van der Meer of Wageningen University in the Netherlands: «Lemna (duckweed) which has a high protein content, a high yield, a good amino acid profile, requires no arable land and is therefore sustainable.

When the researchers then compared the analysis of tomatoes with that of duckweed and the research model Arabidopsis thaliana, they discovered an overlap in specialized metabolite content among these strikingly different species.

Researchers from the US and China have determined that a duckweed biorefinery producing a range of gasoline, diesel and kerosene products can be economically competitive with petroleum - based processes, even in some cases without environmental legislation that penalizes greenhouse gas emissions.

Duckweed tends to grow in clusters that form dense mats at the surface.

I think he covers the whole spectrum — of paintings that only work because they are recognisable as landscapes («Fen Dyke no. 3» 1968), paintings that work and appear to be completely abstract («Spanish Chestnut, Purple Floor» 1964, «Summer Duckweed» 1975), paintings with an almost gratuitous bit of figuration (successfully) thrown in («Summer Courtyard» 1955) and paintings where the figuration is apparent but only secondary and not necessary to the success of the painting («Boat and Foliage in Five Chords no. 1» 1970).

In the end, we may wind - up feeding corn sugars to heterotrophic algae or duckweed, and multiply the yield of carbohydrates, oils and proteins several more times.

And if we are smart and lucky, the cash flow from corn ethanol will provide the money and incentives to convert most of the production stream to cellulosic / duckweed / algal source materials in a decade or so.

Minor changes to an existing Federal tax incentive for second - generation biofuels (i.e., biofuel made from cellulose, algae, duckweed, or cyanobacteria) could mitigate the current elevated risk of investing in the industry that is retarding its advance, according to a new paper by a team from the International Council on Clean... Read more →