Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fossil energy/fuels are excessively used in most farming operations world-wide. All these inputs are damaging the environment and leading to ecological destruction ... Read More
In a Gainesville laboratory, mutant plants created in space are being carefully watched because they could become a source of jet fuel. The fuel would come from the seeds of jatropha, a tropical plant with ... Read More
California -- There were once high hopes for Jatropha as a feedstock for biofuels. But as concerns over the environmental impact of the crop grew, those hopes faded into the background. Jatropha curcas is ... Read More
CARLSBAD, Calif. , Aug. 24 -- Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions and SG Biofuels, Inc. , a bioenergy crop company, today announced they have ... Read More
Carlsbad, CA-based Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE ) and Encinitas, CA-based SG Biofuels are announcing today that they have completely sequenced the genome of Jatropha curcas, a hardy Central American ... Read More
CALIFORNIA (Commodity Online): Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions and SG Biofuels, Inc., a bioenergy crop company, have announced they have completed ... Read More
The process of crushing and squeezing the seeds from jatropha plants to produce a yellowish oil —similar to vegetable oil — would bring no foul smells or dangerous chemicals, Gevinson said. Jatropha farming isn't ... Read More
The Kalimantan plant will use bio-diesel made from jatropha shrubs to produce fuel for Komatsu’s dump trucks, Senior Executive Officer Masao Fuchigami said in an interview. Komatsu aims to market the carbon ... Read More
The project will ultimately involve the use of 3000 hectares of arable land suitable for the purpose of jatropha feedstock cultivation and bio-fuel production. The project also includes the development of a biodiesel ... Read More
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