He is especially enthusiastic about the farm's most recent experiment: dry-farmed quinoa.
These values are upper-bound values that can be used when the soil is homogeneous, as in the case of our first experiment (dry or wet sand).
The yield of reducing sugars was defined as the amount of reducing sugar obtained after the hydrolysis divided by the amount of durian seed flour used in the hydrolysis experiment (dry basis).
At the end of the experiment, dry weights of Cry3Bb1- or Cry1Ab-fed females were similar when compared with those fed pure artificial diet (Dunnett test; Cry3Bb1: P = 0.870; Cry1Ab: P = 0.999).
For each fermentation experiment, dry weight measurements were made in three points at least, in triplicate for each point.
Throughout the experiment, dry bulb, wet bulb, and globe temperatures were measured every 30 min using a portable climate monitoring device (Davis instruments inc., Hayward, USA) positioned at the start/finish area.
During the experiment, dry weight of the available biofilm decreased on average by only 8%, even at high larval density: from a mean DW of 49 mg (SD = 3) at the start to a mean of 45 mg DW (SD = 4) at the end of the experiment.
The ileum and colon were collected at the end of experiment, freeze dried with liquid nitrogen before storing at −80 °C until use.
To study the effect of design elements and different air duct arrangements, residence time experiments, grain drying experiments and discrete element simulations were conducted both at pilot and industrial scale.
Body mass of the organisms was measured after the experiment by drying the organisms for at least 24 h at 90°C.
