bioconversion


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bi·o·con·ver·sion

 (bī′ō-kən-vûr′zhən)
n.
The conversion of organic materials, such as plant or animal waste, into usable products or energy sources by biological processes or agents, such as certain microorganisms.
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bioconversion

(ˌbaɪəʊkənˈvɜːʃən)
n
(General Engineering) the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
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bi•o•con•ver•sion

(ˌbaɪ oʊ kənˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən)

n.
the conversion of biomass to a source of usable energy.
[1955–60]
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Middle to high-income countries like China, Brazil, Japan, Germany, and the United States can manage their garbage through an efficient collection and disposal system, coupled with bioconversion technologies that produce fuel for electricity generation.
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Their topics include the diversity of methane-cycling microorganisms in soils and their relation to oxygen, metabolic features of aerobic methylotrophs: news and views, the microbiology and ecology of methylated amine metabolism in marine ecosystems, specialized metabolites from methylotrophic proteobacteria, the bioconversion of methanol into value-added chemicals in native and synthetic methylotrophs.
The bioconversion process is favored under ionic iron species maintenance in the reaction medium.
Located in Gainesville, FL, BioTork is a privately owned biotechnology company focusing on the development of microbial strains and bioconversion processes capable of producing bio-based chemical commodities such as lipids, fuels, enzymes, plastics and other valuable compounds from affordable and renewable feedstocks.
White-rot fungi, the most promising of the lignin degraders, have been studied for bioconversion of plant residues into nutritionally digestible animal feed [7,8].
We expect to achieve this initially through independent equitization and/or monetization events at Precigen and from our Methane Bioconversion Platform, while other business units of our company may also find higher values independently of our company.
Bioreactors are employed for the cultivation of mammalian, plants, and insect cells, and for large scale production of pharmaceuticals, antibodies, vaccines, etc., or for the bioconversion of organic wastes.