{"id":126691,"date":"2010-01-02T05:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-tech-researchers-engineer-tobacco-leaves-to-enhance-biofuel-production\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T05:35:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T10:35:17","slug":"researchers-engineer-tobacco-leaves-to-enhance-biofuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/126691","title":{"rendered":"Researchers engineer tobacco leaves to enhance biofuel production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/02\/tobacco-plant_P6yCh_69.jpg\" alt=\"tobacco plant\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor<\/strong>: Engineered tobacco leaves to produce more biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Biotechnology Foundations Laboratories at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jefferson.edu\/\">Thomas Jefferson University<\/a> have found out a way to increase biofuel production from tobacco plants by engineering two genes, which increase the oil in tobacco leaves.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The researchers have identified two genes &#8211; the diacyglycerol acytransferase (DGAT) gene and the LEAFY COTYLEDON 2 gene. Plants modified to over-express these genes produce more oil. While a typical tobacco plant contains about 1.7% to 4% of oil per dry weight, engineered plants carry about 6.8% of oil, which can be converted into biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/7\/78\/Native_American_tobacco_flower.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news181457322.html\">Physorg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Engineered tobacco leaves to produce more biofuel. Researchers at the Biotechnology Foundations Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have found out a way to increase biofuel production from tobacco plants by engineering two genes, which increase the oil in tobacco leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}