{"id":7493,"date":"2018-11-22T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2018-11-22T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:51:50","slug":"new-microalgae-can-convert-non-food-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-microalgae-can-convert-non-food-crops.html","title":{"rendered":"New microalgae can convert non-food crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions in the US have found that\u00a0a\u00a0freshwater strain of microalgae <em>Auxenochlorella protothecoides\u00a0<\/em>can degrade and utilise non-food plants like switchgrass. This increases the potential of this type of algae to be used for biofuel.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7494 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Auxenochlorella-protothecoides-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Auxenochlorella-protothecoides-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Auxenochlorella-protothecoides-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This work paves the way for future designer engineering of plant carbon utilisation to further improve productivity of algal production strains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutfeed.net\/New-Proteins\/Articles\/2018\/7\/New-microalgae-can-convert-non-food-crops-312593E\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions in the US have found that\u00a0a\u00a0freshwater strain of microalgae Auxenochlorella protothecoides\u00a0can degrade and utilise non-food plants like switchgrass. This increases the potential of this type of algae to be used for biofuel. This work paves the way for future designer engineering of plant carbon utilisation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae","tag-algae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}