Sentences with phrase «microalga botryococcus»

The genus Coccolithovirus is a recently discovered group of viruses that infect the globally important marine calcifying microalga Emiliania huxleyi.

The genome of the fuel - producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

An enzyme responsible for making hydrocarbons has been discovered by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists studying a common green microalga called Botryococcus braunii.

DTC Shipments Surge, Total Wine Sales Strong: A microalgae found in the sea off Brittany's coastline can wipe - out key vine diseases with new scientific tests in France showing 100 % efficiency in destroying Downey Mildew...

An algae cultivation model favored by Zivo Bioscience eschews complex and costly fermentation systems, photo - bioreactors, panels and tubes associated with microalgae production in favor of the most basic and cost - efficient models: a covered, shallow pond constructed of inexpensive, readily - available materials obtainable in many parts of the world.

Under ideal conditions, the same amount of land used for growing corn could produce up to 25 times more protein from microalgae in part due to continuous harvest year - round and significantly higher protein content found in microalgae

Portugal - based microalgae supplier Allma has launched Chlorella Crunches, a new concept that blends rice cereals with sun - grown Chlorella vulgaris powder to create a natural, delicious and nutritious crispy snack and ingredient solution.

At a serving size of 5g = 1 teaspoon, the blue - green microalgae is safely low FODMAP!

You may also wish to consider a supplement of long chain omega - 3 fats from microalgae, although there is a need for research into how these supplements affect the health of vegans.

You may also wish to consider giving your child a supplement of long chain omega - 3 fats from microalgae, although there is a need for research into how these supplements affect the health of vegans.

Israel - based natural astaxanthin specialist Algatechnolgies has announced that its 100 % organic Haematococcus pluvialis microalgae powder and astaxanthin oleoresin have been granted National Organic Program (NOP) certification.

Good sources include fatty fish — like salmon, mackerel, herring, and sardines — or algal oil, which is a vegan source of DHA that comes from microalgae.

As an IIE - SRF fellow at the University of Gothenburg, Al - Handal is again able to use his expertise in taxonomy of marine diatoms, a type of microalgae, with the added advantage of direct access to a scanning electron microscope, which he didn't have in Iraq.

«The microalgae communities are completely different from what I observed there in the 1990s due to the huge change in environmental conditions,» he says, explaining that the salinity of the groundwater - fed lake has increased threefold because of frequent drought.

However, the research team emphasizes that the method using genetically modified microalgae has its limitations at present time.

«It is difficult to produce large quantities of the desired compounds in microalgae because they have to use a large amount of the produced energy for themselves, since they are fully photosynthetic organisms.

Researchers from Copenhagen Plant Science Centre at University of Copenhagen have succeeded in manipulating a strain of microalgae to form complex molecules to an unprecedented extent.

However, according to the team the expanding methods and genetic tools for microalgae are likely to overcome these limitations within near future.

«Modified microalgae converts sunlight into valuable medicine.»

«Ribbed mussels live in estuarine habitats and can filter bacteria, microalgae, nutrients and contaminants from the water,» said Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the Milford Laboratory, part of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and co-author of the study.

«So basically, the idea is that we hijack a portion of the energy produced by the microalgae from their photosynthetic systems.

The researchers have as such modified microalgae genetically to become small chemical factories with a build in power supply.

As Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran points out, the microalgae use much of the harnessed sunlight to keep their own metabolic processes running:

If we let the microalgae run the production this problem could be obsolete,» she explains.

These guys are aquatic microorganisms — they're thought to be microalgae, a eukaryotic cell, more advanced than bacterial.

Now that sunlight can penetrate the waters, microalgae will quickly begin to grow, providing an abundant food source to any seafloor denizens — and an enticement to new colonizers.

«Our discovery about the ROC40 protein suggests that it may be increasing the expression of genes involved in the synthesis of oil in microalgae,» Rathinasabapathi said.

The microalgae measures approximately 10 microns (0.01 millimeters) and its known that when it stays in an organism, it performs photosynthesis and genetically mutates the host products, providing a significant amount of food.

«Our research involved taking samples of microalgae from adult snails and supply it to larvae at different ages.

When the researchers fully replaced fish oil with the microalgae, they found significantly higher weight gain and better food conversion compared to a control diet containing fish oil, and no significant change in survival and growth rates among all diets.

Dartmouth Research Assistant Professor Pallab Sarker (left) and Professor Anne Kapucinski conduct an experiment on the use of microalgae as a sustainable feed ingredient for aquaculture of tilapia.

The fish - oil - free microalgae diet also had the highest content of omega - 3 fatty acids in tilapia fillets.

«Researchers have to find the ways to cut the high production cost of microalgae in order for such nutritionally enhanced tilapia to succeed in the market.

Commercial realization of this potential will require advances in strategies to reduce non-renewable inputs, such as inorganic fertilizers and fossil fuels, and monetary costs of large - scale production of marine microalgae, she says.

We are now investigating combinations of different marine microalgae to achieve this goal in tilapia.»

In contrast to vegetable oil, microalgae are much higher in essential omega - 3 fatty acids, which are important for maintaining fish health and imparting neurological, cardiovascular and anti-cancer benefits to humans.

In their new study, the Dartmouth researchers looked at juvenile Nile tilapia, a species naturally evolved to eat microalgae as part of its diet.

During the expedition, scientists carried out analysis of the salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen and the microalgae contained in the various bodies of water in the Atlantic, and then compared this data with that obtained by the Biobox.

«We can't get ourselves over the capital hurdle around microalgae yet, but we're really watching both areas,» DuPont's Danielson said.

«We tested the method on microalgae as an example of large cells, around 100 micrometers in size, and achieved 95.8 % purity, 90.8 % viability, and a 92.8 % success rate,» corresponding co-author Yusuke Kasai says.

Difficulty controlling seaweed probably also kept interested companies focused on the more manageable microalgae, since it's so small, Graham said.

Parekh says that the companies believe they will one day be «competitive» with petroleum, and as a bonus, they will be able to avoid the steep up - front costs microalgae farmers face to create pools for their algae.

The chemical composition of the microalgae is not an intrinsically constant factor, but varies over a wide range in accordance with the different cultivation factors such as temperature, light (intensity, wavelength and photoperiod), pH of the medium, supply of CO2, concentration and type of nutrients, source and concentration of nitrogen, salinity and growth phase.

Thus, when the characteristics of a water mass were favourable for reproduction of microalgae, researchers noticed that after a certain amount of time, the aerosols detected above this same water mass contained more biological particles.

There are other people who have talked about changing microalgae — green algae that floats in the water — into advanced biofuel, but [using] seaweed is unique,» said DuPont's Nathan Danielson, a program manager who oversaw the companies» DOE grant application.

Currently, the algae products marketed are few and far between, and the microalgae cultivated for these purposes are likewise scarce.

The net effect of changes in temperature and ocean acidification on benthic microalgae is non-existent if there are crustaceans in the ecosystem.

In environmental biotechnology, new concepts are currently being developed to employ microalgae to recover phosphor and nitrogen from sewage and reintroduce them into the nutrient cycle by means of organic fertilizers.

The microalgae biomass market currently generates almost 10,000 tons of dry material yearly, producing a turnover of approximately 1,500 million euros per year on a worldwide level.

Over the past years, the University of Cádiz, headquarters of the International Campus of Excellence of the Sea, has carried out research on the bioluminescent capability of various microalgae, making possible something that until now was as unconceivable as «bringing light to a dish.»