As it relates to biotech: Orion Genomics Donates Sorghum Sequence to Public Domain; Sequence Expected to Help Researchers Develop New BioFuels
http://www.oriongenomics.com/ St. Louis, MO--Orion Genomics, announced that it is donating to public researchers all of its proprietary gene-enriched DNA sequence from the sorghum plant, a close relative of corn and one of the most important cereal crops worldwide. The sequence is expected to help researchers understand and harness sorghum's unusual resilience in sub-optimal environments to improve other crops such as maize, and to contribute to the development of biofuels http://www.oriongenomics.com/bus-team-management.html The VP of Finance from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Prior to joining Orion in 2000, Mr. Atkinson as Vice President of Finance, Assistant Treasurer and Controller at Enterprise Rent-A-Car --- Peggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Greg, > > The smallest volume in a mushroom complex can be the > fruiting head. > Mycelia (projections similar to our ideas of roots) > can extend for miles > and it is the mycelia that can be one of nature's > greatest assets un > filtration and healthy biomass: forest maintenance, > and good soil. And > YES any cellulosic material can be converted to fuel > ethanol--some more > easily than others. > > And thank you Juan for the great narrative. > > Peggy > > > <Did I understand this ( and the process in general > ) properly? > > You can eat your mushrooms and then turn what is > left into alcohol? > > Greg H. > > > > Hello Dave. > > > > An application of cellulases is in the denim blue > (jeans) laundery > shop or > > factory to make the stone washed effect on denim > with dimished amout > or > > without stones, you might find global cheap > providers of cellulases > for > the > > textile sector. A problem arises when they might > ask you to buy 1 - 20 > Kg > > containers as minimun, I think a quantity too > large for a kitchen > brewer. > > Some chemical laboratory suppliers like Sigma > Chemical Company sells > small > > amouts of common and special enzimes; these are > more expensive > compared > > with the previous providers, on the enzime > activity by gram price but > gives > > you the chance to experiment with various enzimes > to fit your poket > more > > easily. > > > > Someone with a trainig in microbiology can make > cellulolitic enzymes > at > > home, but it takes a lot of work and equipment to > separate good > cellulases > > in quantities to make large amounts of ethanol > that usually some > people > > will choose to buy enzimes ready made and avoid > the hard work and > capital > > investment to get the cellulases. > > > > Any rooting wood with microscopic or with a big > umbrella type fungy is > > producing cellulases to get the sugars out of wood > to grow and these > > enzimes are release outside of their fungal body > to atack the wood > > hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin. Please note > that there are more > than > > one enzime involved in this proccess. > > > > Any fungus could be pick up from woodlands or back > yards, separated > from > > other contaminating microbial species, evaluated > and screened by its > > cellulase activity on a simple sterilized media on > a Petri Dish an > then > > evaluate the cellulase and ligning degrading > enzimes under the same > optimal > > conditions of temperatura, pH, growing medium > composition. > > > > Lots of the work is to mesure the amount of sugars > released in every > single > > container (Petri Dish or Erlenmeyer flask at a > given time say 3 - 7 > day > > period under experiment to detect the best > candidates. > > > > Later biotech work is to grow them in an aereate > and agitated liquid > medium > > and evaluate the species that produces larger > quantities of the most > active > > cellulases then comes the separation of the fungal > mycelium and media > > material from the cellulases. It includes a > coarse, a fine filtration > and > a > > sterilized filtration media around 0.2 - 0.45 > micon metre to avoid > > bacterial contamination and destruction by them of > the protein wich is > made > > of the cellulases, all this to get a crude extract > with the enzimes in > it. > > > > This method do not produce a genetically modified > organism but is only > a > > selection of the most suited fungal species for > the work, as any > rancher > or > > farmer selects the best producing catle race, > suited for its > environment. > > > > Best Regards. > > > > Juan > > > > Pilar, Paraguay > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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