Metabolic engineering of microalgal based biofuel production: Prospects and challenges

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Banerjee, Chiranjib ^a   Dubey, Kashyap K ^b   Shukla, Pratyoosh ^b  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

^b MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Bioreactor; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Metabolic engineering; Microalgae

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIPOGENESIS; LIPOLYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

EID: 84964330651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00432     Document Type: Review

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