diff --git a/wiki/pages/description.html b/wiki/pages/description.html index 21014a59e38dc9aadc9b8b7c0aef6cfdeb4b3543..9967540681ab3788b5983725d6bff74b8ad56279 100644 --- a/wiki/pages/description.html +++ b/wiki/pages/description.html @@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ <img src="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5054/problem.svg" alt=""> </div> <p>To combat global hunger and feed a growing population, an increase in global food production is crucial. This can be at least partially addressed through increasing crop yields, for which fertilizers are needed. Production of fertilizer is possible due to the Haber-Bosch process, where elemental nitrogen is converted into ammonia. <strong>Over-fertilization</strong> and its direct and indirect impact on the environment make agriculture the second leading contributor to short-term <strong>increases in global surface temperature</strong> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34214-3">[Elhai2023 Engineering Neoplasts]</a>.</p> - <div class="img-pagestyle" style="width:80%;margin-top:5px;"> - <img src="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/4594/wiki/imp-static/desc-image3.png" alt=""> - </div> <p>We expected, as the results of the experiment, that the light emitted by the primitive lux operon was a very faint blue light (similar to a schematic diagram of PV), which is very technological, but far from being called "LAMPS". Our project first set out to make our enzymes emit brighter and more colorful light for practical applications. We use both <b>protein engineering</b> and <b>metabolic engineering</b> to achieve the design goal of <b>increasing light intensity</b>.</p> <p>In 2022, Dutch agriculture lost 74% (312,000 tons) of the nitrogen it spread as manure and synthetic fertilizer to the air and soil. Synthetic fertilizer production alone is also the cause of nearly <strong>2% of global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</strong> <a href="https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2023/increase-in-agriculture-s-nitrogen-emissions">[ToenameCBS]</a>. In addition to <strong>water pollution</strong> by leakage of nitrate, <strong>air pollution</strong> due to the conversion of nitrates to N<sub>2</sub>O leads to a global greenhouse effect equivalent to 10% of that caused by the increase in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar4/wg1/">[AR4IPCC]</a>. For staple crops like cereals and maize, <strong>up to 40% of a farm’s operating cost is spent purchasing fertilizer</strong> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34214-3">[Elhai2023 Engineering Neoplasts]</a>. Rising prices for fertilizer have been one of the problems leading to farmers' protests in Europe, and efforts to reduce nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands have been met with its own wave of protests <a href="https://dutchnews.nl/news/2023/farmers-protests-in-the-netherlands/">[ProtestingDutchNews.nl]</a>.</p> <div class="img-pagestyle" style="width:80%;margin-top:5px;"></div>