Sentences with phrase «own duckweed»

Ingredients from seeds, such as chia, hemp, and flax, as well as from more envelope - pushing sources like fungi, algae, duckweed, and similar new sources, are growing fast for the same cluster of advantages.

The latest vegetable based protein that is capturing attention is duckweed (Lemna), although it is at a much earlier stage of development than pea protein and the very well established soy protein.

«I don't see why people wouldn't grow duckweed at much larger scale — at tens of hectares — specifically to create a cash crop for protein isolation.»

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.

«That process is very much coupled to the duckweed production strand; it will remove a lot of the organic matter, and that is good because plants can not take up such components as lipids, sugars, proteins etc.»

The short - term ambition is to drive a local circular economy - closing the nutrient cycle — whereby individual farmers would have a hectare of ponds, growing their own duckweed.

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.

But first, she says, she's got to get more data — and more duckweed.

Julia reasoned that duckweed might soak up some of phosphorus from fertilizer runoff before it reached the algae.

And it occurred to her that the tiny duckweed might be up to the job.

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

«Since it is easy to harvest, farmers could use the duckweed to feed to their cattle,» she concludes.

Duckweed pulled the phosphorus out of both the high - and low - phosphorus water samples.

One had duckweed, but no phosphorus.

After all, surface mats of duckweed can block out sunlight just as the algae can.

Called duckweed, it indeed slurped up fertilizer.

Later, that duckweed can be harvested as feed for local cows, Julia says.

After waiting 25 days, Julia carefully counted the number of fronds on each duckweed plant.

Sarayu tested her drugs on 30 Daphnia, 30 tiny duckweed plants and 10 small apple snails.

Three ppt of either metformin or tri-sprintec was toxic enough to kill half of her water fleas, duckweed and snails, she now reports.

She put 10 water fleas or 10 duckweed plants into each of three cups of water.

• Dark, leafy greens like kale, romaine, Swiss chard, watercress, endive, bok choy, escarole, spinach, duckweed, collard greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, beet greens • Mix greens with coarsely chopped yellow or dark orange vegetables (e.g. shredded carrots, squash), green beans, or broccoli of appropriate size.

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 it Doesn't include the production of algae and duckweed, which is currently at 6,000 gallons per acre per year, for oil and ethanol respectively, plus co-product biomass that can go to feed or fuel depending on demand.

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 →