Under pressure: evolutionary engineering of yeast strains for improved performance in fuels and chemicals production

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2018, Pages 47-56

  Mans, Robert ^a   Daran, Jean Marc G ^a   Pronk, Jack T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GENES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CHEMICALS PRODUCTIONS; CONSTANT CONDITIONS; CULTIVATION REGIMES; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; REGULATORY CIRCUITS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

YEAST;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; FUEL; BIOFUEL;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL ENERGY; ENGINEERING; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EDITING; INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE ENGINEERING; REVIEW; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; YEAST; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BIOFUELS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85034452883     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.10.011     Document Type: Review

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