{"id":1036173,"date":"2011-11-06T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/biotechnology\/mychonastes-afer-hso-3-1-as-a-potential-new-source-of-biodiesel.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:54:05","slug":"mychonastes-afer-hso-3-1-as-a-potential-new-source-of-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/biotechnology\/mychonastes-afer-hso-3-1-as-a-potential-new-source-of-biodiesel.php","title":{"rendered":"Mychonastes afer HSO-3-1 as a potential new source of biodiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Background:<br \/>\nBiodiesel is considered to be a promising future substitute for fossil fuels, and microalgae are one source of biodiesel. The ratios of lipid, carbohydrates and proteins are different in different microalgal species, and finding a good strain for oil production remains a difficult prospect. Strains producing valuable co-products would improve the viability of biofuel production.<br \/>\nResults:<br \/>\nIn this study, we performed sequence analysis of the 18S rRNA gene and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of an algal strain designated HSO-3-1, and found that it was closely related to the Mychonastes afer strain CCAP 260\/6. Morphology and cellular structure observation also supported the identification of strain HSO-3-1 as M. afer. We also investigated the effects of nitrogen on the growth and lipid accumulation of the naturally occurring M. afer HSO-3-1, and its potential for biodiesel production. In total, 17 fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) were identified in M. afer HSO-3-1, using gas chromatography\/mass spectrometry. The total lipid content of M. afer HSO-3-1 was 53.9% of the dry cell weight, and we also detected nervonic acid (C24:1), which has biomedical applications, making up 3.8% of total fatty acids). The highest biomass and lipid yields achieved were 3.29 g\/l and 1.62 g\/l, respectively, under optimized conditions.<br \/>\nConclusion:<br \/>\nThe presence of octadecenoic and hexadecanoic acids as major components, with the presence of a high-value component, nervonic acid, renders M. afer HSO-3-1 biomass an economic feedstock for biodiesel production.Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com\/rss\/\">http:\/\/www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com\/rss\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: Biodiesel is considered to be a promising future substitute for fossil fuels, and microalgae are one source of biodiesel. The ratios of lipid, carbohydrates and proteins are different in different microalgal species, and finding a good strain for oil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/biotechnology\/mychonastes-afer-hso-3-1-as-a-potential-new-source-of-biodiesel.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246860],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}