Jatropha, a hardy, drought resistant plant that grows oil-heavy fruit, was supposed to be the salvation of the biodiesel industry. The plant, which was targeted for an $80 million pilot project by BP ...

MANILA, Philippines - The government has decided abandon the development of jatropha as an alternative source of fuel, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said. He said PNOC-Alternative Fuels Corp.

Jatropha can be fertilised with its nutrient-rich press cake (a residue of the oil extraction process) and survives on far less water compared to sugar cane and corn. Throughout Africa, in places ...

BP Plc, Europe's second-largest oil company, will exit its jatropha biofuel project with D1 Oils Plc to focus on production of ethanol in Brazil and the U.S. and advance biobutanol development. “To ...

Study predicts the yields of jatropha will fall in the next decade and that it is better suited to community-level, rather than industrial-scale, production for the biofuel market Jatropha, an ...

Even in South Florida, there are not many plants that bloom year-round. Some bloom on and off all year, but only a few have flowers 365 days a year. One of them is the Jatropha integerrima also known ...

In order to establish a highly efficient and sustainable regeneration system, we systematically researched the key factors affecting direct shoot regeneration from Jatropha curcas leaves that were ...

My friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma’s commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending ...

Less than fi ve years ago, it was like a gold rush when states allocated nearly 1 million hectares of land in India for growing jatropha, which produces biodiesel. But most projects turned out to be ...

Blooms, birds and butterflies are the attributes everyone experiences when growing the award-winning spicy jatropha. Spicy jatropha also commonly known as peregrina and firecracker jatropha is really ...

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