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Metabolic Pathways in Green Algae with Potential Value for Biofuel Production

Algal Fuel Metabolism

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This chapter examines the basic metabolic pathways in algae that might be developed to produce advanced biofuels in the next 20 years as viable alternatives to currently exploited ethanol pathways used in the production of first- and second-generation biofuels.

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The authors would like to thank colleagues in the Photobiology Group at NREL for a stimulating research environment, which led to our opportunity to write this chapter. This work was supported by the Computational Biology Program, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, US Department of Energy (MS), and by the NREL LDRD program.

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Subramanian, V., Dubini, A., Seibert, M. (2012). Metabolic Pathways in Green Algae with Potential Value for Biofuel Production. In: Gordon, R., Seckbach, J. (eds) The Science of Algal Fuels. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5110-1_22

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