Targeted Growth Develops Method to Increase Lipid Content in Algae

BioFuels Journal
Date Posted: July 27, 2009

Seattle—Bioscience firm Targeted Growth (TGI) announced July 27 it has developed a way to increase the lipid content of cyanobacteria by approximately 400 percent.

This discovery will dramatically increase the oil yield per acre, decreasing the cost of algae production and helping algae-based biofuels become price-competitive with petroleum.

During the past four years the entire genome of cyanobacteria has been sequenced by researchers.

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