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Non-toxic, Low Cost Nitrogen Fixation by Titanium Dioxide
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Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen (N2) in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3). Although the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, it is nutritionally unavailable because nitrogen molecules are held together by triple bonds. Atmospheric nitrogen does not easily react with other chemicals to form new compounds, as it is...
Published: 2/2/2023
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Inventor(s): Glenn Miller, Ahmed Al-Taani
Keywords(s): Agriculture
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Engineered Tissue Succulence in Plants
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A novel technology to increase tissue succulence in plants using genetic engineering. Tissue succulence is an important plant trait that improves the drought attenuation of plants, improves salinity tolerance, and can optimize the performance of crassulacean acid metabolism. As climate change brings hotter and drier conditions to agricultural...
Published: 2/2/2023
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Inventor(s): John Cushman, Sung Lim
Keywords(s): Life Sciences
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Life Sciences, Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Engineering Crassulacean Acid Metabolism to Improve Water-Use Efficiency
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A novel technology to increase the water-use efficiency and drought tolerance in plants using synthetic biological approaches. Crassulacean acid metabolisms (CAM) is a specialized form of photosynthesis that reduces crop water demands by 3-to-6-fold compared with non-CAM species by shifting all or part of atmospheric CO2 fixation from the...
Published: 9/20/2024
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Inventor(s): John Cushman, Sung Lim, Won Cheol Yim
Keywords(s): Agriculture
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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