This plant was used later by the Tropical Botanical garden and Research Institute (TBGRI) in Thiruvananthapuram to develop Jeevani,
. and E u. to stop using the neonicotinoid pesticides Plant bee friendly plants in your garden
and adding more plant life to city streets. UP Fest participants made use of the P-Planter urinal at the event (thanks to disposable pee funnels, both male and females could use the outhouse.
and made available to the adjacent plants (large bamboo stalks, in the prototype). Sensors measure the amount of urine entering the urinal and monitor ammonia levels.
A very different kind of planter, the Fruit Fence, converts the ubiquitous chain link fence into an urban plant nursery.
and used to grow, say, strawberry plants or lemon tree starters. Sensors in the bags alert passersby that the plant needs water or fertilizer
or these signals can be sent to community members via text message. The idea is that people who live in the neighborhood
and walk by the plants every day would be encouraged to act as stewards for the plants and ensure they remain healthy.
which swap parking spots for platforms for people and plants and social interaction. We don't need just parklets,
and its components provide nutrition to the plant so the plant can grow and be productive.
how do we ensure those plants are not susceptible to diseases? It may be more use of biological control mechanisms.
This will lead to developing new plant varieties that can cope with the diseases. We will need global monitoring
You are known for your groundbreaking research on developing virus-resistant plants through biotechnology. What are some of the ways biotechnology can be used today?
plants are closer together and you have to adjust their genetics to be more resistant to diseases or drought or flood.
I know my genetic code and my microbial flora in my intestine, so I can go to the grocery store
Led by USDA plant geneticist Stephanie Greene and St petersburg State university scientist Alexandr Afonin, the project also aims to help students learn how to use geographic information system,
Four-metre-high stacks of growing trays on motorized conveyors will ferry plants up, down and around for watering,
such that the trees and plants will help control the building's climate, through shading in summer and daylighting in winter,
Once completed, Bosco Verticale will support 900 trees (the tallest are expected to grow up to about 30 feet) as well as shrubs and floral plants.
Supporting the same amount of plant life on land would require an area equal to 10,000 square meters (about 2. 5 acres) of land per tower according to Stefano Boeri Architetti.
helping to both conserve and reduce energy consumption while enabling onsite plant and food production. Bosco Verticale is designed to irrigate the plants by filtering
and reusing grey water from the buildings water system. In fact the vertical gardens will require an onsite management team.
Eric Maudu's garden is wired with sensors that let him know just how thirsty his plants are,
The plants have sensors that tweet updates so he can know in real-time how his garden is doing.
We actually only water new shrubs or plants that haven't established and stop short of sprinkling the lawn except on very rare occasions.
though, we lose at least some plants every summer to the opposite problem: over watering. Naturally, I read with interest some information
Plant types Soil composition Slope of the soil Sun exposure The type of irrigation you're using (hose versus sprinkler versus drip lines, etc.
which residents can trade recyclables for fresh food, homemade goods and plants. People handed over their bags of glass,
His family came away with a plant, some lettuce, mushrooms and green onions. Rosa Fajardo and her daughter, Itzel Patricio, traded 15 kilos of recyclable material for four houseplants and two rounds of cheese.
Studies have estimated that at least 80%of the world s population relies on compounds obtained mainly from plants as their primary source of health care.
This will help reveal the long term effects of radiation on animals as well as how radiation spreads in the forest as it transfers between animals and plants.
The team plans to study the mountainous region up against Minamisoma city, about 16 miles north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Artificial plants could beat bed bugsbean leaves effectively trap bed bugs Bean plant leaves won't bite bed bugs back,
 Artist Fabrice Peltier, founder of Designpack Gallery in 2008, searches new ways to reuse these bottles without sending them to the processing plant,
The company hopes the plant will help reduce its carbon footprint and boost its use of renewable energy;
 Currently, we have the benefit of a trash-to-energy plant established a few decades ago.
The size of the original plant that we had looked at for the traditional biomass approach...
We're also looking at reviving a smaller hydroelectric plant that will generate more energy.
On top of that, we get a major portion of our thermal energy from a plant nearby, but that same plant takes care of the solid waste from the Berkshire County area.
It's an important systems solution for the area. Berkshire County is a beautiful place to live.
The plant will provide landowners with economic incentive to keep open spaces open. Â Without this particular solution for our challenge
The one thing we don't have is 15 of these plants across the country proving every detail.
and then directing it to plants has won the 2011 James Dyson Award, a prestigious international student design prize, announced on November 8.
then direct the resulting condensed water to plants, was inspired initially by how the Namib beetle collects dewdrops on its back.
And one looks at the jatropha plant, which is important in the development of biofuel,
looking at how you could grow this plant in areas that are not usually hospitable for agricultural plants,
and droppings to help plant-life grow. United states In Buffalo, New york, saving bees is part of a local business person's vision for redeveloping a waterfront industrial site into a design district.
and pollinate plants. And humans, directly and indirectly, keep infringing on their natural habitats; it's only fair to give a little space back.
Chef Ben Shewry, a quiet trailblazer in the Melbourne food scene, spoke in length about finding edible wild plants and foods.
but Weatherhead prefers to educate us on the wonders of Australias native flora world. Julie and her husband, Anthony Hooper, live
Researchers at the University of British columbia have discovered a plant-based alternative to ambergris that is similarly lipophilic.
The company makes a point of noting that these are plants that are used not typically in food production,
All of the plants are renewable on an annual basis, so there is an abundant supply of them over time.
and filters it to feed the plants above, before recirculating it back down to the fish.
'Sutherland is teaching bees to associate infected plants with a sugar reward. After they are conditioned,
but might do a bit better than existing plants, hopefully surviving for one more rainfall. If they work as advertised,
in highly toxic and dangerous petrochemical plants. Less than 5 percent of plastic is recycled, he said;
Theres also some companies making things from invasive plants. PIE (Project Import Export, Inc.)uses water hyacinth to make wicker furniture.
when he visited a Suntech solar plant in China. With four stories of automated production lines and the record for polycrystalline silicon efficiency, the company was executing on the mantra,
Cleanstar's plan to use ethanol to clean up cookingcleanstar  Mozambique has opened a biofuel plant to produce cassava-based ethanol fuel in an effort to replace charcoal,
with a goal of saving 25 percent of all wild plants by 2020. Should we eat the babies?
you build one plant, you build another better, then next one better, and so forth. The key is to climb down the learning curve as fast as you can.
DOE Dept of energy grants can support research and development, a pilot plant, a demonstration facility. Those programs have been out there,
while plant breeders and farmers around the world will be able to develop cacao trees that are more sustainable,
the plants absorb the gas during photosynthesis. Biomass will be utilized in the future, Lynn noted. The underlying building receives the added benefit of a 20 percent energy cost reduction,
and plants to control pests while reducing risks to human health. There has been some wonderful coverage of sustainable agriculture recently
is preparing for what it believes will be a next generation product that ethanol plants can move onto.
and rows of various vegetable and herb plants including tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, zucchinis, radishes, peppers, peas, cresses, lettuces, tulips and orchids.
giving the place the look of a plant disco. And Plantlab, in partnership with another research firm, Imtech, claims the lights stimulate an impressive botanical dance as they nurture two-to-three times the growth compared to greenhouses.
what managing partner Marcel Kers calls plant paradise. The environment has eliminated so far the need for pesticides
That ability helps the pathogen to outsmart its plant hosts. Now discovered it may clue researchers into unlocking ways to control it.
tomatoes and related plants, causing a late blight disease that can destroy entire crops in days.
On the other hand, some effector genes can also trigger plants'immune responses--making them prime targets for combating P. infestans infection.
and death of genes that are key to plant infection. As a result, these critical genes may be gained
Further study should yield a deeper understanding of plant infection and help identify potential targets for fighting back.
with fast-growing trees and plants being integrated from the ground level all the way to building rooftops. The development won't be a hub for solar panels and turbines.
And there is worse news. The containment ponds around most coal plants like the one that broke open in Tennessee,
And that's because when human proteins are expressed in plant cells, they're usually decorated with plant-specific sugar molecules,
which could prompt a dangerous immune reaction if injected into patients, Nature explains. The team tweaked the protein-producing genes,
I. Other plants are already being used to make biopharmaceuticals. In May, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first ever drug produced in a genetically engineered plant cell:
Elelyso for the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease, produced in carrot cells. Drugs made in duckweed, safflower,
which allowed it to increase the annual capacity at the Iowa plant, the company said.
The commercial plant in Iowa will require a capital investment of about $7 per gallon of annual capacity.
store and deliver more than 375,000 dry tons of stover per year to the plant. The stover will be collected from a 30-mile radius around the new plant
and harvested of off 190, 000 acres, the company said. Graphic: Dupont Related: BP scraps cellulosic ethanol plant plans Turning pine trees into jet fuel Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops
Dupont's big bioscience bets: butanol, cellulosic ethanol, omega-3 acidsnew YORK--Dupont wants to help raiseã Â sustainably-farmed salmon by offering them a diet loaded with omega-3 fatty acids that it manufactures from soybeans.
One of the world's largest aerobic facilities, a 100million-lb plant in Loudon, Tenn.
which it has opened a demonstration plant--and biobutanol, for which it has a demonstration plant under construction.
cellulosic, sugarcane, grain (mostly corn from the U s.)600 more plants are needed in next decade.
We expect to get a significant share of these plants operating on our technology, via tech licensing and assistance and support.
or solar power plants exist in the vicinity of heavyweight U s polluters--or few on the map itself, in honesty.
the plant generated 22.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide alone. The collated data for greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 shows:
there were 109 trials at 81 different farms, with monitoring of both woody and fruit and vegetable plants,
and plant materials that could create profitable alternatives, said Angel Garcia Lidon, the director of the Spanish Agro-Food industry and Agricultural Training.
and these are more durable plants, better accustomed to droughts. For the apricots, many of the farms are applying different styles of pruning,
You can t grow plants without phosphorus. It s a major component for animal life also.
Actually, one of the largest sources of phosphorus into waters comes from human waste sewage treatment plants.
We re doing a lot of research in how to better deliver nitrogen to the plants. Unlike phosphorus, it doesn t really bind to the soil.
The EERC is working withã Â Vermont-basedã Â Wynntryst to develop a gasification power system to use the waste from the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters processing plant to produce energy.
from coniferous juniper plants and trees, faces a fungal enemy. Among the problems: A fungus called Phytophthora austrocedrae is so much on the rampage that according to The Telegraph it could wipe out the already shrinking population of the U k.'s native juniper trees.
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The higher fruit is changing the ways you run your plant. Smartplanet: When we talk about the smart grid,
Often what happens is the water that leaves the plant is less than what's brought in--a lot evaporates into the air--so there isn't as much at the end of the plant as there is at the beginning of the plant,
so they're taking new freshwater instead. So we're saying, let's take discharge from another plant and use it here.
If there are 100 gallons of water in the world, 20 goes to industry, 70 goes to agriculture,
And there are a lot of plants in the U s. on the sea taking advantage of that. But there's also the environmental concern in putting warmer water back into the ocean--the long-term fate of the ecology of the ocean.
500 homes instead of pumping the water out into big plants to be treated. People underestimate the amount of energy that it takes to make
That building has a wastewater treatment plant in the basement, and they reuse 98 percent of their water.
At our nuclear plant in Wilmington, North carolina we're doing water treatment there. Our aircraft engines plant in Cincinnati.
genetically modified canola plants are grown, so it can be used for cooking oil and in animal feed.
Some of the sites had packed densely plants, with 1, 000 specimens in a 50-meter space.
and the plants contained at least one transgene. Canola was detected in nearly 50 percent of the locations.
the researchers warn that we need to be mindful of how we modify the plants used in cultivation,
No doubt, it will be hard to control plants that are resistant to available herbicides. What are regulators going to do about it?
Genetically modifying plants to absorb arsenicsince ancient times, humans have been using and abusing arsenic for everything from mining to medicine to murder.
But a gene found in an ancient plant, a fern, might lead to solutions to sponge the toxin from contaminated areas.
published in the journal Plant Cell, might eventually improve cleanup strategies, via genetic modification. They've isolated the gene (ACR3) that codes for a membrane protein within the ferns'vacuoles.
Salt said rice plants could be modified with the gene to store arsenic in the roots of plants-instead of rice grains-in contaminated paddies.
even if certain plants moss, lycophytes, gymnosperms, and other ferns already have a single copy of the gene.
Flowering species (from more recent branches of plant evolution) appear not to have ACR3 at all.
native plants and trees will be added  around the banks to complete the stream habitat. Residents can assist the effort by stabilizing bare soil with plants
limiting impervious surfaces, such as concrete, on their property and letting grass grow near stream banks.
Show attendees clamored for photographs of the PNC Bank  Living Wall, a 16-foot high exhibit of plants, such as ferns and  vines,
All of the water in the emirate's distribution system--the water used for human consumption--is produced by nine large desalination plants, to the tune of 634 million Imperial gallons a day in 2011.
ADWEC Virtually all desalination activities are powered currently by natural gas-fired cogeneration plants burning an average of 1. 73 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of gas.
and concrete is gradually replacing plants and grass. Water-saving devices are required now in all new buildings
Health concerns spur organic gardening in Indian homesritu Mathur in her organic garden GURGAON-Ritu Mathur poked the soil in the potted plants
How Kansas city is making millions from human wasteafter cities have cleaned out waste in water treatment plants,
Those are crucial for plant growth and crop yield. Do you sell biochar now? We're developing equipment to make biochar.
a device that can mimic a plant's ability to not only absorb sunlight, but to collect carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into a hydrocarbon fuel.
toss back her signature blonde blowout and commune with the plants. There were periods when the garden didn't look as good.
and canteens across Beijing make their way to the plant, built on a converted garbage dump in a western corner of the city.
Abandoned chopsticks are shaken out of the garbage at Goldenway's Gaoancun plant. After rouge chopsticks
which the plant s designers say is ideal for growing organic fruit and vegetables. Food waste accounts for more than half of the nearly 20,000 tons of garbage Beijing generates daily, most
For companies like Goldenway Biotech, who built the Gaoancun plant, Beijing's food waste mountain is a business opportunity.
Goldenway has opened eight similar plants across China. Â The company's secret is its garbage eating enzyme, developed in a lab in the Southern Chinese city of Chengdu, according to Yi.
Despite the plant s apparent environmental benefits, Beijingers remain suspicious. Residents of one city suburb took to the streets with  homemade  banners last November,
calling on the local government to cancel the construction of one of the firm's waste food processing plants in their neighborhood,
After discovering that the plant was indigenous to Europe and quite easy to grow (winter frost actually makes it taste sweeter instead of killing it),
 The health benefits of the plant, however, exceed those in most other green vegetables.
Often found as an ornamental plant or as feed for livestock, there is no clear cut explanation for why the green fell out of favor.
 She hopes that the trendiness of the plant in restaurants from New york to Los angeles will help to attract Parisian consumers.
even though he faces another week of the same here at the world's largest indoor flower and plant exhibition.
plants and bulbs sold in the United states are from foreign producers: especially Colombia and Equador, according to the Society of American Florists.
Far more than flowers While flowers and plants are the main attraction, the sheer variety of wares sold in the marketplace area representing more than 140 vendors was mind-boggling.
governments are trying to implement  20 targets to save the world's fast disappearing flora and fauna.
An increasing number of coal and nuclear power plants as well as dams are being authorized to fuel a growing energy appetite.
Simply put, fish are raised in a tank of water that circulates from the plants and back into the tank.
the water with fish waste is pumped into a gravel bed where the plants are growing,
which provides nutrients for the plants. In turn, the plants clean up the water for the fish.
We've written about aquaponics before on Smartplanet as a small-scale garden not a scaled-up citywide industry.
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The wastewater discharge from the plant was cut by 65 percent. Oh, by the way, energy consumption dropped by 52 percent at the same time,
Kraft has invested heavily in technology at the two of its plants in order to convert whey into a digester that produces enough methane to replace about 30 percent of the natural gas it uses to power these plants.
Its Zurich Switzerland, facility is called the Lightcube, a nod to the glass, automated shades and weather station that are used to help monitor
Leafsnap combines biometrics and botany for electronic field guidewashington--This week behind the Smithsonian Castle, a research botanist and two computer science professors unveiled Leafsnap, a free plant identification
and David Jacobs at the University of Maryland to create the world s first plant identification mobile app.
it s much faster and less frustrating than trying to identify a plant through an old fashioned field guide.
how the plant is used and where it is found. Belhumeur said part of the project involved photographing leaves in a way that has never been done,
So one of the main technical challenges in using leaves to identify plant species has been to find effective representations of their shape
36g Sugar beet â oe 34g Wheat (straw as process fuel in CHP plants) â oe 35g 2g Ethanol (land-using) â oe 32g 2g Biodiesel (land-using) â
communities of plants and animals that exist in a specific climate. The report focuses on the temperate broadleaf forest biome
Yes to oak trees, no to centralized power grids HOK vice president and co-author Thomas Knittel says we can learn from the ways plants
On the other hand, the relationship between a yucca plant and a yucca moth is both efficient and highly vulnerable.
and a Farmscape farmer visits the garden once a week to plant, tend to pests
so that plants and grass will be watered only when conditions call for it. And not when it is raining;
and they make that nitrogen available to plants...others are methane lovers and they take methane from the atmosphere,
The first is the typical Australian backyard characterized by concrete slabs, exotic plants and water sources leading to stormwater drains.
Download the pdf (959kb) of the plant design. Photo: Ari Hatzis
Melbourne tech startups address the most basic of things: foodmelbourne--The population of Melbourne, a city named one of the world's most livable,
UK regulators announced the approval of Europe's first clinical trial of an anti-HIV product produced in genetically modified tobacco plants.
will test the safety of the plant-produced antibody designed to stop transmission of HIV when applied directly to the vaginal cavity.
since plants are extremely cost-effective protein producers. Mass producing medicines in GM plants uses lower-cost tech than those of biopharmaceuticals made in huge stainless steel fermentation vats containing bacteria or mammalian cells.
Production costs could be 10 to 100 times lower than using conventional bioreactors, says Rainer Fischer of the Fraunhofer Institute.
'This opens the potential for plants to manufacture a range of drugs in the developed,
The biotech medicine is the first plant-produced antibody to be greenlit for clinical testing by Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Agency.
because it wanted assurances that the drugs did not contain allergenic plant sugars or pesticides.
so a version made by tobacco plants won't see approval anytime soon. This trial is the culmination of the EU Framework 6 Pharma-Planta consortium of about 30 academic institutions and small companies.
When the nuts come into our plants, we increase our port of entry inspection. Quality is very important to us,
plant is doing things like steam treating, which cleans the nuts with just steam, so you don t have to use chemicals.
We installed a railroad at our plant to transport nuts from the farm, which takes trucks off the highways.
The Energy department has several research projects aimed at finding heat tolerant enzymes from fungi and microbes such as cellulases that break down plant cell walls and convert biomass into fermentable sugars.
AND that is made from plant-sourced materials including switch grass, orange peels and potato peels. Actually, the agricultural materials that will go into these bottles are byproducts from its foods business,
As plants ripen they produce ethylene, which changes their texture and appearance to indicate whether they are not yet ripe, just ripe, or overripe.
Novozymes has agreements to supply the new enzyme to U s. producer  Poet for its cellulosic ethanol Project Liberty facility and to  M&g Group for its Crescentino, Italy plant,
Iowa plant, slated to open next year. Check out the map provided by Novozymes below to see what cellulosic ethanol plants  are expected to come online this year and in 2013.
The map  includes plants that are not using the company's new enzyme. Photo:
the largest ethanol maker in the U s.,has turned down a $105 million federal loan guarantee that would have financed one of the country's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plants.
Two years later, Poet built a pilot plant in Scotland, South dakota, where it began testing its cellulosic ethanol production process.
Poet plans to eventually scale up its production to 25 million gallons a year at Project Liberty, the company's long-planned  cellulosic plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
which is being constructed adjacent to the company's existing corn ethanol plant. The initial capacity is expected to be 20 million gallons in the first year
and license the tech to additional plants to be built at Poet's 26 other corn ethanol facilities,
If the tech is replicated at every Poet plant, as much as 1 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced each year,
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