Metabolic engineering for enhanced biofuels production with emphasis on the biological production of hydrogen

Advances in Chemistry Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 125-154

  Hallenbeck, Patrick C ^a   Ghosh, Dipankar ^a   Abo Hashesh, Mona ^a   Wang, Ruofan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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