Engineering Feedstocks for Biofuel Production

Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances.

Microalgae represent an exceptionally diverse but highly specialized group of micro-organisms adapted to various ecological habitats. Many microalgae have the ability to produce substantial amounts (e.g. 20-50% dry cell weight) of triacylglycerols (TAG) as a storage lipid under photo-oxidative stress or other adverse environmental conditions. Fatty acids, the building blocks for TAGs and all ot...

Engineering algae for biohydrogen and biofuel production.

There is currently substantial interest in utilizing eukaryotic algae for the renewable production of several bioenergy carriers, including starches for alcohols, lipids for diesel fuel surrogates, and H2 for fuel cells. Relative to terrestrial biofuel feedstocks, algae can convert solar energy into fuels at higher photosynthetic efficiencies, and can thrive in salt water systems. Recently, the...

Biofuel Feedstocks: The Risk of Future Invasions

Transgenic perennial biofuel feedstocks and strategies for bioconfinement

163 10.4155/BFS.09.11 © 2010 Future Science Ltd Limitations in the current availability of bioenergy feedstocks are a major problem in next-generation biofuels. There are global economic, political and environmental pressures to increase biofuel production and utilization, to offset gasoline and diesel fuel use, especially in the transportation sector. Many countries, such as the USA and China,...

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for biofuel production

493 ISSN 1759-7269 10.4155/BFS.10.13 © 2010 Future Science Ltd 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, 303 Furnas Hall, NY 14260, USA †Author for correspondence: Tel.: +1 716 645 1198; Fax: +1 716 645 3822; E-mail: [email protected] Biofuels as an alternative to petroleum fuels Petroleum-based fuels have provide...