Sentences with phrase «microbial production»

Heavy rains in recent years may have boosted microbial production of methane in tropical wetlands.

These experiments all measured how extra CO2 in the atmosphere affects plant growth, microbial production of carbon dioxide, and the total amount of soil carbon at the end of the experiment.

Caribou Biosciences» CRISPR - Cas technology provides precision tools to improve microbial production strains and generate better cell factories for fermentation.

Because life prefers lighter carbon, the isotopes suggest to some scientists that the atmospheric rise must be due to extra microbial production, and not a boost due to leaked gas from fracking operations, which has a heavier isotopic signature.

Ocean acidification is also predicted to reduce microbial production of nitrate from ammonium (Beman et al., 2011), which could have major consequences for oceanic primary production because a significant fraction of the nitrate used by phytoplankton is generated by nitrification at the ocean surface (Yool et al., 2007).

Credit: Scientists have discovered a new enzyme that could enable the first microbial production of bio-based toluene, a widely used octane booster in gasoline.

Underestimated rice emissions provide a partial explanation, with the remainder most likely attributable to microbial production in waterlogged areas such as landfills, polluted waterways and wetlands.

The research team's findings describe a totally new pathway for the microbial production of methane in the environment, that is very unlike all other known pathways.

CRISPR - Cas technology improves the microbial production strains used in the bioproduction of chemicals and enzymes from fragrances and flavors to industrial cleaning and transportation.

As a Research Councils UK academic fellow at Manchester, she investigated the microbial production of selenium - based nanomaterials linked to bioremediation strategies for selenium - contaminated soils.

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