The botanical name of the ancient protozoan Euglena, as Euglena also has two characteristics of animals and plants
Euglena this "dual nature of animals and plants," many scientists believe that animals and plants have a common ancestor - it is probably similar with the Euglena, some living in the ancient waters of the single-cell protists. In the long process of evolution, some of them accompanied by molecular changes in the genome to strengthen the movement, feeding the structure and function, while gradually "lost" the structure and function of photosynthesis, and ultimately transformed into a complete different way of life Yang; other molecules associated with the genome of other changes in the way the way toward full self-support changes. The former approach represents the first generation of animals, the latter approach represents the first plant to appear.
Osaka Prefecture University Faculty of Agriculture, as the center of the research team, found a high concentration of carbon dioxide can rapidly into the microbial food resources. This organism is exposed algae, is a native creatures, the capacity of its fixed carbon dioxide is higher agricultural productivity of U.S. corn production of 50 times. When carbon dioxide concentrations increased over the past ten percent, the medium of Euglena to ten million high-density reproduction. Euglena breeding at this pace, if so, can reduce carbon dioxide, but also increase production of food, to the twenty-first century humanity Gospel.
In Euglena fifty percent dry weight is protein, and its quality is better than plant protein produced, containing 20 amino acids, including isoleucine and other 9 kinds of essential amino acids, more suitable as food than Chlorella . Currently under way to test it as cattle feed.
As in the acidic environment of this organism can reproduce, they are able to prevent the hybrid mix. The ability of carbon dioxide from a fixed point of view, the average annual temperate broad-leaved forest to 7 tons per hectare of grain was 7.6 tons, is far beyond both Euglena 410 tons. |
