Is Seaweed the Next Biofuel? (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Is Seaweed the Next Biofuel? (2 of 2)

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Seaweed's rapid growth in native saltwater environments and high sugar content make it an ideal feedstock for renewable fuels and chemicals. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 20, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.J. Wargacki at Bio Architecture Lab in Berkeley, CA, and colleagues was titled, “An Engineered Microbial Platform for Direct Biofuel Production from Brown Macroalgae.”

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