{"id":82143,"date":"2018-08-27T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/serendipitous-discovery-may-lead-to-eco-friendly-lubricant"},"modified":"2018-08-27T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:42:22","slug":"serendipitous-discovery-may-lead-to-eco-friendly-lubricant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/serendipitous-discovery-may-lead-to-eco-friendly-lubricant","title":{"rendered":"Serendipitous discovery may lead to eco-friendly lubricant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/serendipitous-discovery-may-lead-to-eco-friendly-lubricant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of environmentally friendly lubricants. Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI identified the compound in the seed oil that is produced in a manner unlike any other fatty acid. The study was published today online in the journal Nature Plants.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Orychophragmus violaceus<\/i> plant is a purple flower native to China; it\u2019s commonly referred to as the February orchid. While collaborating on the <i>O. violaceus<\/i> plant\u2019s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln encountered a bit of a mystery: All plant seeds contain oils as energy reserves for later growth, but researchers noticed the February orchid <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/seed\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">seed<\/a> oils were unusual.<\/p>\n<p>They called upon IUPUI bioorganic chemist Robert Minto, who specializes in identifying natural products and unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/compounds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">compounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-serendipitous-discovery-eco-friendly-lubricant.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-serendipitous-discovery-ec...icant.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of environmentally friendly lubricants. Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI identified the compound in the seed oil that is produced in a manner unlike any other fatty acid. The study was published today online in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}