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Biofuel alternatives to ethanol: pumping the microbial well

Jeffrey L. Fortman, +12 more
- 01 Jul 2008 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 7, pp 375-381
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Advances in microbial engineering for the production of other potential fuel molecules, using a variety of biosynthetic pathways are reviewed, to highlight additional options.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2008-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 378 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biofuel.

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Jason Hill, +4 more
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TL;DR: Transportation biofuels such as synfuel hydrocarbons or cellulosic ethanol, if produced from low-input biomass grown on agriculturally marginal land or from waste biomass, could provide much greater supplies and environmental benefits than food-basedBiofuels.
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TL;DR: The engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce high titres (up to 100 mg l-1) of artemisinic acid using an engineered mevalonate pathway, amorphadiene synthase, and a novel cytochrome P450 monooxygenase from A. annua that performs a three-step oxidation of amorpha-4,11-diene to art Artemisinic acid.
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Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "Biofuel alternatives to ethanol: pumping the microbial well" ?

The use of microbial systems for the production of industrially relevant compounds has seen substantial gains in the past decade as a direct result of the genomics revolution this paper.