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Bioethanol currently dominates the biofuel industry; however, the main bioethanol feeedstocks, sugarcane and maize, are all land-based crops. Algae polysaccharides represent an alternative substrate for bioconversion into ethanol, upon hydrolysis into fermentable sugars.
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Formighieri, C. (2015). Bioethanol from Algae Polysaccharides. In: Solar-to-fuel conversion in algae and cyanobacteria. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16730-5_4
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