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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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Percent of biomass that is starch | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 5 (±0.4 Table - link) | % | 109003 | Williams TC, Poolman MG... |
Percent of biomass that is lipid | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 11 (±2 Table - link) | % | 109002 | Williams TC, Poolman MG... |
Total biomass in the biosphere | Biosphere | ~2×10^12 (~5×10^30 living cells) | tonnes of biomass | 111594 | Landenmark HK, Forgan DH... |
Percent of oceanic primary producer biomass out of global primary producer biomass | Biosphere | 0.2 | % | 102945 | Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
Total bacteria biomass on Earth (≈15% of the global biomass, predominantly located in deep subsurface environments) | Biosphere | ≈70 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115272 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
Percent of biomass that is protein | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 20 (±2 Table - link) | % | 109001 | Williams TC, Poolman MG... |
Biomass concentration for different strains | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | TMB3001 0.530: TMB3001C5 0.581: TMB3001C1 0.479 | gDW/OD unit | 107923 | Sonderegger M, Sauer... |
Global estimates of carbon in biomass in different global regions | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103798 | Lars Gunnar Marklund... |
Empirical elemental formula for biomass | Bacteria Escherichia coli | C:H(1.77):O(0.49):N(0.24) | N/A | 101800 | von Stockar, U. Liu,... |
Estimates of the biosphere's whale biomass | Mammals | 5 to 15 Table - link | Mt C | 109628 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
Estimates of the biosphere's human biomass | Human Homo sapiens | 40 Table - link | Mt C | 109625 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
Biovolume-to-biomass conversion factor | Unspecified | 121 | fg of C per μm^3 | 102240 | Loferer-Krössbacher, M.... |
Fermentation excretion rate of biomass | Bacteria Salmonella typhimurium | 1.7 to 3.3 Table - link | mmol/g/hour | 109679 | Driessen M, Postma PW... |
Biomass macromolecular and monomeric composition | Bacteria Lactococcus lactis | Excel Table - link | N/A | 109941 | Lahtvee PJ, Adamberg K... |
Estimates of the biosphere's heterotrophic biomass | Biosphere | Table - link | Mt C | 109600 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
Estimates of the biosphere's elephants biomass | Elephant sp. | 0.1 Table - link | Mt C | 109623 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
Percent of biomass that is soluble metabolites | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 14 (±1 Table - link) | % | 109004 | Williams TC, Poolman MG... |
Percent of biomass that is cell wall | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 43 (±5 Table - link) | % | 109000 | Williams TC, Poolman MG... |
Fraction of global biomass contained in oceans | Biosphere | 0.22 | % | 116129 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
Biomass yields under different growth conditions | Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | 28.9 autotrophic: 15.6 heterotrophic: 13.5 to 22.9 mixotrophic | g biomass/mole carbon | 105935 | Boyle NR, Morgan JA.... |