Engineered cyanobacteria: Teaching an old bug new tricks

Bioengineered Bugs

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 136-149

  Ruffing, Anne M ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal biofuels; Biofuels; Blue green algae; Cyanobacteria; Cyanobacterial biofuels; Genetically engineered cyanobacteria

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALKANE; AMPICILLIN; CARBOHYDRATE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ETHYLENE; FATTY ACID; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROGEN; ISOPRENE; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSENSOR; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS LEOPOLIENSIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

BIOFUELS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 79960271925     PISSN: 19491018     EISSN: 19491026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/bbug.2.3.15285     Document Type: Review

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