APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture Biodiesel production ADVANTAGES: Substantial increase in seed oil yield No adverse effects on plant growth and development ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have employed an artificial positive feedback loop (APFL) to increase seed oil through the overexpression of a master … [Read more...] about Increased Production of Storage Compounds in Seeds 2016-103
Biotechnology
Spectroscopic Imaging and Analysis of Live Cells 2015-077
ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab led by Hoi-Ying Holman have developed technologies for measurement, visualization, and analysis of chemical dynamics in living cells or tissues for diagnostic pathology. Devices can be open- or closed-channel microfluidic membrane devices for long-term IR spectroscopy of live adherent cells and ultimately for rapidly identifying … [Read more...] about Spectroscopic Imaging and Analysis of Live Cells 2015-077
Arrowland: An Online Multiscale Interactive Tool for -omics Data Visualization 2016-102
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY Data visualization for metabolic modeling ADVANTAGES: Convenient data input Flux data visualization Simultaneous visualization of -omics data Embedding in Jupyter notebooks ABSTRACT: Arrowland is a web-based software application primarily for mapping, integrating, and visualizing a variety of metabolism data of living … [Read more...] about Arrowland: An Online Multiscale Interactive Tool for -omics Data Visualization 2016-102
Reduction of Cell Wall Methylation and Recalcitrance 2016-141
ABSTRACT: Plant biomass is a large source of fermentable sugars for the synthesis of bioproducts using engineered microbes. These sugars are stored as cell wall polymers, mainly cellulose and hemicellulose, and are embedded with lignin, which makes their enzymatic hydrolysis challenging. One of the strategies to reduce cell wall recalcitrance is the modification of lignin … [Read more...] about Reduction of Cell Wall Methylation and Recalcitrance 2016-141
EcoFAB Plant Growth Chambers for Microbiome Research 2017-048
Photo credit: Ritesh Melawal APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Laboratory and field study of plant microbiomes for improved plant sustainability and yield ADVANTAGES: Cost effective and easy to use Enables non-destructive, reproducible experiments Can be sealed during experiment cycle to decrease possibility of contamination Requires very small volume of … [Read more...] about EcoFAB Plant Growth Chambers for Microbiome Research 2017-048