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Nature 401, 217-218 (16 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/45686
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Protect Enzyme from In Planta Degradation
A proposal for stable expression of an enzyme in corn seed is desired.
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Fast Growth of Transformed Soybean Shoots
A method for accelerating growth of soybean shoots is desired.
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Scientist, Recombinant Protein Expression
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
- Copenhagen 2200 Denmark
Three Associate Senior Lecturer positions within Natural Sciences
- The University of Kalmar
- Kalmar, Sweden
Cracking anaerobic bacteria
John Parkes
Abstract
Hydrocarbons such as hexadecane have seemed resistant to bacterial decay to methane. Not so, it turns out, but this bacterial hydrocarbon 'cracking' process is very slow.
At any one moment, some ten billion tons of particulate organic matter is sinking down through the world's oceans1. This organic matter stimulates microbial activity to such an extent that only a small proportion of it — less than 0.
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