Sentences with phrase «microorganisms produced»

Certain microorganisms produced them naturally when fed starch, whose molecules are made up of long strands of sugar units.

«We don't know for sure if their synthesis is shared: maybe the microorganism produces the aromatic compounds and the ants store them in their glands.

For more than 30 years, scientists have proposed that resistance genes actually originate from the microorganisms producing the antibiotic.

On the seafloor of the shallow coastal regions north of Siberia, microorganisms produce methane when they break down plant remains.

Not exact matches

With a method known as high - pressure processing, Lumi produces 13 flavors of fruit and vegetable juice that are rich in nutrients, low in sugar, and free of harmful microorganisms.

Vitamin B12 is a microbe — a bacteria — it is produced by microorganisms.

The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.

Kefir is a fermented food that is a viscous, acidic, mildly alcoholic milk beverage produced by fermentation of milk with a particular grain in Middle and Eastern Europe it is easily digested and provides beneficial microorganisms that contribute to a healthy immune system.

The ability of corrugated packaging to trap microorganisms and pull them away from fruits and vegetables is a clear sign that produce will arrive fresher and last longer packed in corrugated boxes.»

All of the microorganisms involved rely on or produce one of the other elements in the starter.

Fermented foods have been preserved or produced by the action of microorganisms like bacteria and yeasts, which digest sugars, turning it into gasses, acids or alcohol... I know, I'm not really selling it.

There are several active compounds that are naturally produced by microorganisms or contained in food.

Therefore, Golden Rice was developed using genetic modification, using genes from maize and a common soil microorganism that together produce beta carotene in the rice grain.

Instead, scientists used genetic modification techniques to develop Golden Rice by using genes from maize and a common soil microorganism that together produce beta - carotene in the rice grain.

Or is it better to produce them via fermentation processes, using yeast or other microorganisms that have been engineered to produce them a thousand times more efficiently?

In food industry different microorganisms and fermentation techniques have been used to produce the dairy products, beverages etc..

In this fermentation technology various microorganisms are grown in the large scale to produce the commercial food products and it is used to carry out important chemical transformations.

For crops that naturally have higher levels of microorganisms (e.g. radishes, which grow in contact with water and nutrients), a space - rated produce sanitation method must be developed and tested.

Microorganisms decompose the plant material (which is mostly carbon), producing carbon dioxide and heat.

Microorganisms in your starter thrive in high quality flours, producing vitamins and converting starches and micronutrients in your flour into more bioavailable and nutritious food for you.

Amazingly, the starter cultures also produce antimicrobial substances and create an environment where other (harmful) microorganisms can not thrive, which is why although it's kind of like off milk, yoghurt is an edible product and has quite a good shelf life!

These microorganisms break down lactose to produce an acid environment that discourages the growth of disease - producing organisms.

Lactic acid bacteria are the enemies of many harmful microorganisms inducing intestinal infections, and they also produce substances that take active part in digestion process and make it easier.

The anaerobic microorganisms in the plant produce methane gas, which is used to produce some electricity to heat the facility.

The boost may be due to a relative increase in methane - producing microorganisms called archaea in the digestive systems of treated cattle due to the suppression of antibiotic - susceptible bacteria, the team suggests.

Some retrofit microorganisms with BioBricks, Lego - like snippets of DNA that perform well - defined genetic functions, producing everything from antibiotics to biofuels.

Moreover, greater attention had been paid in recent years to the biotechnological potential of microorganisms that produce enzymes and other chemical compounds that help them survive in such a harsh environment.

The pyrazine - producing bacterium was discovered by chance when the scientists were looking for microorganisms capable of protecting ant colonies from parasitic fungi.

Some researchers in the scientific community have expressed alarm, however, at the rapid progress in a field that could lead to a simple method for producing artificial pathogens, drug - resistant microorganisms, or new types of bioweapons.

Most of the world's clinically useful antibiotics are derived from molecules referred to as natural products because they are naturally produced by microorganisms.

The resulting film also appeared less resistant to microorganisms that produce cellulose - destroying enzymes.

Jay Keasling (right) engineers microorganisms to produce life - saving drugs, energy - saving fuels and improved materials — work that earned him the title of Discover's Scientist of the Year in 2006.

Keasling's research focuses on engineering microorganisms to produce useful chemicals.

The new, genetically engineered microorganisms incorporated the fluorinated diketides into the PHAs they produced, generating polymers containing 5 to 15 % fluorinated monomers.

Nearly all of the thousands of different chemical substances produced by people, animals, plants, fungi, algae or microorganisms on the ground or in the oceans react quickly with OH and break down in this process.

Our planet was once dominated by methane - producing microorganisms, resulting in an unusual combination of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would not have arisen naturally.

Goodell points out that most microorganisms use enzymes to break down compounds, but enzymes are huge molecules and physiologically «expensive» to produce because they contain so much nitrogen.

A unicellular microorganism, yeast is a top candidate for producing protein because it grows rapidly and needs few resources to thrive.

In the «BioElectroPlast» project funded by the Federal Ministry of Research they use microorganisms that produce polyhydroxybutyric acid from flue gas, air, and renewable power.

The approach, called tunable infrared laser direct absorption spectroscopy, detects the ratio of methane isotopes, which can provide a «fingerprint» to differentiate between two common origins: microbial, in which microorganisms, typically living in wetlands or the guts of animals, produce methane as a metabolic byproduct; or thermogenic, in which organic matter, buried deep within the Earth, decays to methane at high temperatures.

This research not only provides the first clear evidence that microorganisms were directly involved in the deposition of Earth's oldest iron formations; it also indicates that large populations of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria were at work in the shallow areas of the ancient oceans, while deeper water still reached by the light (the photic zone) tended to be populated by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron - oxidizing bacteria which formed the iron deposits.

A strong suspicion was that the pale light of will - o» - the - wisp is caused by the ignition of methane, which is produced in large amounts by anaerobic microorganisms.

«They have achieved one milestone in the effort to produce steroid hormones in microorganisms,» says Michael Waterman, a biochemist at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

If there is no oxygen there, microorganisms break down this biomass, producing methane.

They sent soil samples for DNA testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays, which involve feeding the soil microorganisms a food source which has been labelled with radioactive carbon, which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.

While the chemical reaction that the bacteria perform on uranium is a common process known as «reduction,» or the act of accepting electrons, Kerkhof said it's still a mystery how the reduced uranium produced by this microorganism ultimately behaves in the subsurface environment.

An international research team has analysed the relationship between the amount of phosphorus recorded in 1,500 European lakes and reservoirs, and the growth of cyanobacteria, a toxin - producing microorganism.

Molecular signatures in ancient rocks show the microorganisms may have existed on Earth around 3.5 billion years ago, producing some of the greenhouse gases needed to stabilise the early Earth's climate.

Methanosaeta were the dominant methane - producing microorganisms in the digesters and known to convert acetate to methane, but analysis of the gene expression in the digester revealed that Methanosaeta were also highly expressing genes for converting carbon dioxide to methane.

Analyses revealed that the long - incubated fluids contained low concentrations of methane with a lower - than - normal concentration of the carbon - 13 isotope — a sure sign that methane - producing microorganisms were living in the fluid, the researchers report online today in Science.