Partitioning of carbon to lipids is engineered to improve oil accumulation in an industrial alga.
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Posewitz, M. Algal oil productivity gets a fat bonus. Nat Biotechnol 35, 636–638 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3920
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