{"id":566,"date":"2013-08-28T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=566"},"modified":"2014-07-29T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:05:28","slug":"us-based-start-up-working-on-non-toxic-castor-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2013\/08\/us-based-start-up-working-on-non-toxic-castor-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"US Based Start-up Working On Non-toxic Castor Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Synthetix, an agricultural biotechnology start-up, based at US,is looking to bring to market a castor-oil plant variety that does not contain a toxin. The company is commercializing a non-toxic castor plant that produces a unique fatty acid in its seed oil which will be used as a high-value chemical feedstock. They are contracting with growers and developing downstream markets for their castor product.<\/p>\n<p>Nova Synthetix, has recently received a $50,000 grant from a private, US based non-profit corporation, named North Carolina Biotechnology Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some interesting links<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingenergyanalytics.com\/blog\/?p=11\">Building Energy Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weird.gallery\/crazy-and-weird-stuff-with-solar-power\/\">Some Innovative &amp; Unique Solar Power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Synthetix, an agricultural biotechnology start-up, based at US,is looking to bring to market a castor-oil plant variety that does not contain a toxin. The company is commercializing a non-toxic castor plant that produces a unique fatty acid in its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2013\/08\/us-based-start-up-working-on-non-toxic-castor-plant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,24],"tags":[206,78],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-oil-companies","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-plant","tag-castor-research","tag-castor-toxicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}