Extracellular Biofuel Production by Engineered Microalgae (IMAGE)

Saitama University

Extracellular Biofuel Production by Engineered Microalgae

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Free fatty acids, which serve as biofuel precursors, are photosynthetically produced and secreted by cyanobacterial strains engineered via a self-cloning method that leaves no foreign DNA.

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Yoshitaka Nishiyama from Saitama University

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