Instead, Dr Jiao thinks refractory compounds are made and released by these bugs mainly in response to viral infections.
The family's version of mapo tofu relied solely on hua jiao for seasoning.
Which is more important to them, though, was not clear until Dr Jiao and his colleagues began their research.
ECONOMIST: Bacteria and climate change: Invisible carbon pumps | The
In a recent ranking of the world's 500 best universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, only two were from India.
For example, Dr Jiao and his colleagues want to map the abundance, composition and distribution of refractory molecules in more detail.
ECONOMIST: Bacteria and climate change: Invisible carbon pumps | The
But many question the Jiao Tong rankings' methodology, which appears to favour those specialising in natural sciences over those with other merits.
Jamie Jiao was sitting in the front car of the second train.
CNN: Investigator: D.C. Metro crash 'a scene of real devastation'
Harvard still gained the top spot, but the number of British universities in the top 20 rose to twice that of the Jiao Tong rankings.
Almost immediately Dr Xiao, writing under the pseudonym of Hun Jiao Shou (Confused Professor), began criticising Dr Fang for the way New Threads went about its business.
Mr. President, I'm a student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall with Chinese Youth
Dr Jiao estimates that the amount of carbon stored by the oceans in this way is equal to the amount in the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide.
ECONOMIST: Bacteria and climate change: Invisible carbon pumps | The
It also led the Latin American contingent in another list, this time compiled by Shanghai's Jiao Tong University and released in August, ranking in the cluster between 101st and 150th.
Jiao Weixin of Peking University says China would not have the technical ability to put a man on the moon for another 20 years, well beyond America's target return date.
The Shanghai Jiao Tong and THE rankings are enormously important both for universities, which are increasingly reliant on international students, and for countries, who take their positions on the charts quite seriously.
That started happening in 2006, when Dr Jiao developed a technique called time-series observation-based infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, or TIREM for short, that is able to measure the amount of AAPB in the oceans accurately.
"I'm lucky to be alive, " Jiao said.
CNN: Investigator: D.C. Metro crash 'a scene of real devastation'
Based on these findings, Dr Jiao and his colleagues propose that AAPB, and possibly other, similar microbes, have a predominant role in pumping carbon into a pool of compounds that cannot be turned back into carbon dioxide by living creatures, thereby building up a large reservoir that keeps carbon out of the atmosphere.
应用推荐