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Engineering direct conversion of CO2 to biofuel

Genetically engineered cyanobacteria harvest light energy to directly produce isobuteraldehyde and isobutanol.

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Figure 1: Comparison of areal productivities for direct photosynthetic conversion of CO2 to isobutyraldehyde and isobutanol in Atsumi et al.1 with current and future projections for other biofuel technologies.

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Sheehan, J. Engineering direct conversion of CO2 to biofuel. Nat Biotechnol 27, 1128–1129 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1209-1128

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