{"id":1116,"date":"2009-06-18T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2009-06-18T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T05:43:00","slug":"philippines-quest-for-biodiesel-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/philippines-quest-for-biodiesel-from.html","title":{"rendered":"Philippines\u2019 Quest for Biodiesel from Microalgae Starts at UPLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Emeritus Milagros R. Martinez-Goss of the University of the Philippines Los Ba\u00f1os has got the approval of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) \u2013 Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Resources Research and Development (PCAMRD) for funding her proposal to mass cultivate freshwater microalgae for biodiesel feedstock.<\/p>\n<p>With an initial funding of P 4.5M from the DOST-PCAMRD, Dr. Goss will be mass cultivating promising species of freshwater microalgae such as Chlorella vulgaris, Scendesmus obliques and Nitzschia palae. She states that the three species have the potential as biodiesel feedstock because of their growth rate, lipid content and lipid profile.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Goss\u2019 project is part of a larger research program, aimed to characterize, optimize and genetically and physiologically modify microalgae for mass cultivation to be used for biodiesel production. The program will be facilitated by UPLB in cooperation with the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Santo Tomas<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovations-report.de\/html\/berichte\/biowissenschaften_chemie\/philippines_quest_diesel_microalgae_starts_uplb_133643.html\">innovations report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Professor Emeritus Milagros R. Martinez-Goss of the University of the Philippines Los Ba\u00f1os has got the approval of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) \u2013 Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Resources Research and Development (PCAMRD) for funding her proposal to mass cultivate freshwater microalgae for biodiesel feedstock. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}