Focus Areas

Markets

Kuehnle AgroSystems, Inc. (KAS) provides the world’s first fully customized live algae for use in a number of production environments and application areas. Our company focus is on applications in the following areas: 

  • Aquaculture
  • Animal health and nutrition
  • Cosmetic ingredients
  • Specialty chemicals
  • Biofuels 


KAS has already field-tested cultivars with major customers in the biofuels space (at over 1 million liter volumes) as part of various US federal and state government funded algae research projects (DARPA, USDA, ONR, DOE).  All have performed favorably and our partners are now using KAS proprietary cultivars in demonstration scale grow-out. Our cultivars are already being used on carbon capture projects (such as one in Iowa and one in Hawaii) and we have cultivars currently being used for aquaculture feed.  

Optimization

Genetic by Environment interactions are critical to a cultivar's performance. Optimization targets can include an ability to thrive in a range of temperatures, water quality, nitrogen utilization and custom sources of organic inputs for heterotrophy and mixotrophy. Trait stacking is also a foundation in our selection program.

Culture Collection

KAS offers a unique set of algae collected under permit from pristine waters of Hawaii. Our unialgal axenic isolates also include samples imported from other locations and collections.  We continually add new germplasm to our collection and evaluate each strain for its unique value. Each accession is fingerprinted by DNA sequencing. Cryopreservation of all accessions ensures genetic integrity and reliable performance year round. In addition to basic culture requirements, a complete proximate analysis is performed for each accession including: fatty acid profile, total fat (AH) crude protein, amino acid profile, digestibility, ash, moisture, carbohydrate, fiber, metals and minerals.

 



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