Biotechnological exploitation of microalgae

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6975-6990

  Gangl, Doris ^a   Zedler, Julie A Z ^a   Rajakumar, Priscilla D ^b   Martinez, Erick M Ramos ^c   Riseley, Anthony ^d   Włodarczyk, Artur ^c   Purton, Saul ^b   Sakuragi, Yumiko ^c   Howe, Christopher J ^d   Jensen, Poul Erik ^c   Robinson, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; downstream processing; metabolic engineering; microalgae; recombinant proteins; transformation

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MICROALGA; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MICROALGAE;

EID: 84951733370     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv426     Document Type: Review

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