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Targeted Growth, Inc.

Paul A Olivier

James M Roberts

Jay Derocher

Disclosed are mutant CDK inhibitor (CKI) polypeptides having dominant negative antagonist activity against wild-type CKI proteins, as well as related compositions, including nucleic acids and vectors encoding the mutant CKI polypeptides and transformed host cells and transgenic plants comprising such nucleic acids and vectors. Also disclosed are related methods for using the mutant proteins to modulate cell division in cells, particularly plant cells.

Dominant negative mutant KRP protein protection of active cyclin-CDK complex inhibition by wild-type KRP

The present invention is directed to a method and system of system for efficiently bio-converting putrescent wastes to a more usable form. The present &ldquo;domestic&rdquo; unit does not utilize a motor nor does in contend any moving parts. Instead, the domestic unit generally comprises a generally rounded container with two small ramps on the inside of the container. The two ramps begin at the bottom of the container and spiral up to the top of the container, where they adjoin a discharge pipe. In operation, the putrescent waste is deposited into the domestic unit container. Mature larvae have only one avenue of escape from the putrescent waste, up the ramps and into discharge pipe and onto collection tubes where the larvae are collected and processed. When the container fills up with larval residue, the larvae are removed from the container, the container is emptied of residue, and the larvae are put back into the container. Because the container may be fabricated in any size, from a wide variety of materials, smaller containers can be manually tended.

Disposal apparatus and method for efficiently bio-converting putrescent wastes

Initially, putrescent waste is deposited on a surface of a disposal volume which is partially composed of putrescent waste. A living system bio-converts at least a portion of the putrescent waste in the disposal volume, transforming the putrescent waste into waste residue. While bio-conversion is occurring on a portion of the putrescent waste in the disposal volume, waste residue is excavated from the disposal volume below the surface of the disposal volume. Because the excavation takes place below the surface area, the bio-conversion process is not affected by excavating the waste residue. A device for continuous bio-conversion of putrescent waste comprises a disposal track having lateral side walls and floor for containing the disposal volume. An excavation gap is associated with at least one of the lateral side walls for excavating waste material from the disposal volume. The excavation gap is positioned substantially below the living system so waste can be excavated simultaneously with bio-conversion. The device further employs a scraper for excavating at least a portion of the waste residue. The scraper has a plurality of blades attached to a chain for excavating the waste and interposed between the blades are backplates which clean the blades as the chain rounds a sprocket. The scraper is moved along the floor of the disposal track as it excavates the waste material. The floor both supports the disposal volume and the scraper, and has a filter screen to filter water from the disposal volume.

Apparatus for bio-conversion of putrescent wastes

Method for bio-conversion of putrescent wastes

A system and process for continuously separating and recovering materials from a heterogeneous mixture of particulate solids, from a solid waste or waste stream source, which uses a plurality of liquid media of different specific gravity to effect the separations, the solids having a plurality of different specific gravities and the recovered fractions each having a different specific gravity, wherein a first separation vessel receives the heterogeneous mixture, contacts the material with a first liquid medium having a first specific gravity of about 1.0, thereby causing a first part of the mixture to rise in the liquid medium as float particles, the remaining part to settle as sink particles, removing the separated float particles and sink particles without intermixture, then providing a second separation vessel, which receives the sink part from the first separation vessel contacts the material with a second liquid medium having a second specific gravity different from that of the first liquid medium, thereby causing a first particle of the material to rise in the liquid medium as float particles, the remaining part to settle as sink particles, and removing the separated float particles as a substantially organic particulate mixture, and the separated sink particles as a substantially inorganic particulate mixture, without intermixture between the product streams.

System and process for separating and recovering/recycling solid wastes

The invention relates to a device and a method for the continuous treatment of putrescent waste in which the waste is eaten by fly larvae. The device comprises a conveyor belt, a means to distribute the waste, a means for depositing fly larvae or fly larvae eggs onto the waste, a means for removing fly larvae from the waste and from the conveyor belt, and a means for removing the waste from the conveyor belt.

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Washington, LA, United States of America

Paul A Olivier