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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....