At Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech a team of researchers has assembled the draft genome of a marine algae sequence to aid scientists across the US in a project that aims to discover the best algae species for producing biodiesel fuel. The results have been published in Nature Communications. Other methods have been tried for developing an alternative renewable fuel source, corn for ethanol and soybeans for biodiesel, for example.
But to truly meet the world’s fuel needs, researchers must come up with a way to produce as much biofuel as possible in the smallest amount of space using the least amount of resources. Enter algae. Unlike other crops like corn or soybeans, algae can use various water sources ranging from wastewater to brackish water and be grown in small, intensive plots on denuded land. Read more ...
Article in Nature Communications here
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Article in Nature Communications here
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