{"id":3968,"date":"2013-02-28T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:56:35","slug":"msu-researchers-put-the-algae-gene-into-plant-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/msu-researchers-put-the-algae-gene-into-plant-leaves.html","title":{"rendered":"MSU researchers put the algae gene into plant leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Amidst ongoing research efforts to increase the oil content of algae, a team at the Michigan State Univeristy is inserting the algae oil gene to engineer a plant that stores lipids or vegetable oil in its leaves. Using the gene, the team has successfully engineered Arabidopsis thaliana, a plant with oily leaves. The algae oil gene successfully boosted oil levels in the plant\u2019s leaf tissue.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">This approach finds great interest in the biofuel industry to boost plants oil production for biofuel production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/YBvsQC\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/YBvsQC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst ongoing research efforts to increase the oil content of algae, a team at the Michigan State Univeristy is inserting the algae oil gene to engineer a plant that stores lipids or vegetable oil in its leaves. Using the gene, the team has successfully engineered Arabidopsis thaliana, a plant with oily leaves. The algae oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-2","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}