Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Aug 27th, 2010
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Life Technologies and SG Biofuels announced together they have completed sequencing the Jatropha curcas genome to 100-fold coverage, using Life Tech’s SOLiD 4 platform.
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Aug 25th, 2010
Life Technologies and bioenergy crop firm SG Biofuels have sequenced the genome of Jatropha curcas , an oilseed plant, using the SOLiD 4.0 platform, the companies said this week.
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Aug 24th, 2010
Life Technologies Corporation , a provider of innovative life science solutions and SG Biofuels, Inc., a bioenergy crop company, today announced they have completed sequencing the Jatropha curcas genome to 100x coverage, using the SOLiD⢠4.0 System by Life Technologies.
Posted in Uncategorized, jatropha curcas on Jul 21st, 2010
It is just a matter of time for the residents of drought prone Kitui district in Eastern province of Kenya to say goodbye to charcoal burning as a source of income and ripe enormous benefits from the more economic value Jatropha curcas tree being advocated in the region.
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Jul 2nd, 2010
In support of the Philippine Biofuel law and the Alternative Fuels Program of the government, the Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has recently launched its new facility for the pilot production and testing of biodiesel from jatropha curcas. The Philippine National Oil Corporation-Alternative Fuels Corporation (PNOC-AFC) and …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Jul 1st, 2010
( Wiley-Blackwell ) An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy predicts the yield of the biofuel crop, Jatropha curcas L., for present and future climates.
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Feb 11th, 2010
Biofuel Plant One Of Several Experiments On Board STS-130 UK-based Carbon Credited Farming (CCF) congratulated NASA on the successful launch of the Endeavour Space Shuttle today. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center taking with it new scientific experiments, including a study of the Jatropha curcas plant, used for producing biofuel.
Posted in Uncategorized, jatropha curcas on Nov 23rd, 2009
San Francisco Bay Area – based Eco-Fuel Global this week entered a groundbreaking agreement with the Government of Rwanda estimated to be worth in excess of $250m; to produce bio-fuels from Jatropha Curcas.
Posted in Uncategorized, jatropha curcas on Nov 3rd, 2009
To get a sense of just how difficult it is to replace oil as a transportation fuel, VoiceofSanDiego.org in San Diego, Calif. said, consider the saga of jatropha curcas as a potential biodiesel feedstock.
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, jatropha curcas on Oct 12th, 2009
Kenya has embraced a hardy bush called jatropha curcas as the heart of a nascent biofuel industry. Proponents predict a future in which jatropha oil will power commercial jets and cars. But in Kenya, where the government has encouraged farmers to plant jatropha, things aren’t going so well.