ISS Hosting Alternative Energy Crop Experiment
eWeek
Cell cultures of the jatropha curcas plant were sent to the space station in February in special flasks containing nutrients and vitamins. ...
Do biofuels grow better in space?Wired.co.uk
Light weight, heavy burdenThe Australian

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Conversation about Haiti
Galena Gazette
He is currently the chairman of the Jatropha Foundation. Jatropha is a perennial tropical plant. It grows well in dry and arid conditions and its crop of ...



Small biofuel farm bears fruit
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
About two years ago they planted jatropha, an oil-rich nut native to South America, on 250 acres in Keaau on Hawaii island. They have leased another 750 ...

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Biofuels sector still looks a long way from firing
The Australian
Jatoil (ASX code: JAT) entered a joint venture this month to grow 2000ha of jatropha trees (an alternative feedstock to palm oil) in central Java. ...



SG Biofuels announces 'elite' jatropha cultivar
Los Angeles Times (blog)
SG Biofuels on Monday revealed a proprietary variety of the jatropha curcas plant that the Encinitas-based company said will yield more oil at a more ...
SG Biofuels Launches World's First Elite Jatropha CultivarPR Newswire (press release)
From hot to rot for wonder cropJakarta Post

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Genetic Engineering Renews Jatropha's Promise as Biofuel Source
HeatingOil.com (blog)
If SG's new-and-improved jatropha plant proves to be a highly cost-effective biodiesel source, supplies of biodiesel heating oil will increase, driving down ...
Former wonder crop Jatropha gets a brand new lifeCTV.ca

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Bumpy ride with biofuels
The Australian
There is considerable interest across Asia in the jatropha plant. An Indonesian government agency is investigating whether marginal land can be used to grow ...



Let's try to make deserts green
GulfNews
No wonder that Egypt is going ahead with a number of Jatropha projects to plant large swathes of its deserts near Luxor (5000 hectares) and Hurghada (an ...



'Keep open mind on nuke option'
Business Mirror
He added that using jatropha as a biomass feed for the power plant is impractical. “We might as well plant jatropha on every inch of land in Sarangani to ...

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Going green by growing green
Lexology (registration)
The jatropha plant, farmed in the Yunnan Province, has typically been regarded as a pest, not a mover for major economic production. ...

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