10
01 2014
Prof. XU Jian's research group has sequenced and compared six Nannochloropsis genomes, which share key oleaginous traits, such as the gene dose expansion of selected lipid biosynthesis genes compared to green algae Chlamydomonas.
Photosynthetic microalgae are of interest as potential feedstock for fuels because of their high yield of oil in cell, high growth rate, tolerance of diverse environmental conditions and capability to grow on non-arable land using brackish wa...
25
12 2013
Biologist Cui Qiu carries out tests on the germ clostridium, in a bid to produce new biofuels. Photo: Dr Cui Qiu
Biologist Cui Qiu manipulates genes of little-known bacteria to make them superstars of fuel production. In one recent achiev...
24
12 2013
Metagenomics method directly sequences and dynamically analyses taxonomic and functional information of microbial communities, which could potentially optimize bio-processes behind some key bioenergy applications such as cellulose degradation, pol...
09
12 2013
The most commonly used method for single cell isolation is Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) currently. However, it needs fluorescence labeling normally, and only obtains limited phenotypes, conducting hardly “in situ” identificati...
03
12 2013
Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium cellulolyticum are typical cellulosome-producing Clostridium strains that can produce ethanol from cellulosic substrates, and have been considered as the most promising candidates for bioconversion of ...
02
12 2013
Alcohols and polyols are important biomass-based chemicals. Starting from simple biomass-based building blocks, such as ethanol, butanol, acetone, 5-hydroxyfurfural or glycerol, a series of new synthetic routes to different biomass-based alcohols ...
