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Overcoming biological constraints to enable the exploitation of microalgae for biofuels

John G. Day, Steve Slocombe, Michele S. Stanley

Bioresource Technology, Volume: 109, Pages: 245 - 251

Swansea University Author: Steve Slocombe

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.05.033

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Microalgae have significant potential to form the basis of the next biofuel revolution. They have high growth and solar energy conversion rates. Furthermore, their osmotolerance, metabolic diversity and capacity to produce large amounts of lipids have attracted considerable interest. Although there...

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Published in: Bioresource Technology
ISSN: 0960-8524
Published: Elsevier BV 2012
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