The future of biofuels, biofuels of the future

Microbial Technologies in Advanced Biofuels Production

Volumn 9781461412083, Issue , 2012, Pages 261-268

  Hallenbeck, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrosynthesis; Genome evolution; LCA; Metabolic diversity; Metabolic engineering; Metagenomics; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904652673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1208-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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