Challenges in engineering microbes for biofuels production

被引：533
作者：
Stephanopoulos, Gregory [1 ]
机构：
[1] MIT, Dept Chem Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
来源：
SCIENCE | 2007年 / 315卷 / 5813期
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D O I：
10.1126/science.1139612
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Economic and geopolitical factors ( high oil prices, environmental concerns, and supply instability) have been prompting policy-makers to put added emphasis on renewable energy sources. For the scientific community, recent advances, embodied in new insights into basic biology and technology that can be applied to metabolic engineering, are generating considerable excitement. There is justified optimism that the full potential of biofuel production from cellulosic biomass will be obtainable in the next 10 to 15 years.
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