Metabolic engineering of microalgal based biofuel production: prospects and challenges

The current scenario in renewable energy is focused on development of alternate and sustainable energy sources, amongst which microalgae stands as one of the promising feedstock for biofuel production. It is well known that microalgae generate much larger amounts of biofuels in a shorter time than o...

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Main Authors: Chiranjib eBanerjee, Kashyap Kumar Dubey, Pratyoosh eShukla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00432/full