Microalgae synthesize hydrocarbons from long-chain fatty acids via a light-dependent pathway

Plant Physiology

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2393-2405

  Sorigué, Damien ^a   Légeret, Bertrand ^a   Cuiné, Stéphan ^a   Morales, Pablo ^a   Mirabella, Boris ^a   Guédeney, Geneviève ^a   Li Beisson, Yonghua ^a   Jetter, Reinhard ^b   Peltier, Gilles ^a   Beisson, Fred ^a  

^a University of Aix Marseille   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8-HEPTADECENE; ALKANE; ALKENE; BIOFUEL; CIS-VACCENIC ACID; FATTY ACID; HEPTADECANE; HYDROCARBON; OLEIC ACID; PENTADECANE; STEARIC ACID; STEARIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLORELLA; CHLOROPLAST; DIATOM; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ALKANES; ALKENES; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLORELLA; CHLOROPLASTS; DIATOMS; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROCARBONS; LIGHT; MICROALGAE; OLEIC ACIDS; STEARIC ACIDS;

EID: 84982962212     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00462     Document Type: Article

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