Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for biofuels production: from bugs to synthetic biology to fuels.

By Sung Kuk Lee, Howard H. Chou, T. Ham, T. Lee, Jay D. Keasling. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2008

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Biodiesel from algae: challenges and prospects. (2010, neutral): “[36,37]).”
Genetic Engineering of Algae for Enhanced Biofuel Production (2010, background): “Most of these come from the manipulation of E. coli, in which the overexpression and deletion of entire metabolic pathways are feasible.”
Identification and microbial production of a terpene-based advanced biofuel (2011, background): “Among other properties, biosynthetic alternatives to D2 diesel should have a similar cetane number and comparable cold propertie”
Strategies for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Metagenomic-based Enzyme Discovery in Lignocellulolytic Microbial Communities (2010, background): “Cellulosic biofuels are one such alternative that are receiving unprecedented international attention, owing to the large, underutilized reservoir of renewable energy in plant biomass [10, 30].”
Algal Polysaccharides, Novel Applications and Outlook (2012, background): “Another strategy is introduction of transhydrogenase into strains that lack this, through genetic engineering (Fortman et al. 2008; Lee et al. 2008).”