{"id":79228,"date":"2017-07-18T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/?p=79228"},"modified":"2017-07-18T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:42:20","slug":"msu-doe-researchers-find-chloroplast-role-in-seed-oil-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/msu-doe-researchers-find-chloroplast-role-in-seed-oil-production\/","title":{"rendered":"MSU-DOE researchers find chloroplast role in seed oil production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In Michigan, <a href=\"https:\/\/prl.natsci.msu.edu\/news-and-events\/news\/a-new-chloroplast-app-for-making-biofuels\/\">researchers at the <span class=\"s1\">MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory<\/span> have found that chloroplast not only is responsible for photosynthesis<\/a> but also plays a role in seed oil production which could be manipulated to boost oil yields and therefore increase biofuel production efficiency. The process could boost yields as much as 10% but some bugs in the process need to be sorted out as in some cases boosting the enzyme responsible for the increased oil yields led to a defense mechanism that achieved the opposite result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Michigan, researchers at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory have found that chloroplast not only is responsible for photosynthesis but also plays a role in seed oil production which could be manipulated to boost oil yields and therefore increase biofuel production efficiency. The process could boost yields as much as 10% but some bugs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}