An Engineered Microbial Platform for Direct Biofuel Production from Brown Macroalgae

By Adam J. Wargacki, E. Leonard, M. Win, Drew D. Regitsky, C. N. S. Santos, Peter B. Kim, S. Cooper, Ryan M. Raisner, Asael Herman, A. Sivitz and 4 more. Science, 2012

717 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aquatic Science, Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6f58b37fa0e2c9a42d446fe5502ff5c33553b3e9

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Aquatic Science

In Biotechnology

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Citations in the corpus

The status of kelp exploitation and marine agronomy, with emphasis on macrocystis pyrifera, in chile (2014, background): “It has been recently demonstrated that the carbohydrates of giant kelp can be fermented and transformed into bioethanol (Wargacki et al., 2012).”
Macroalgae in biofuel production (2015, background): “The laboratory-scale study resulted in over 80% conversion of the maximal theoretical yield with most of the ethanol produced within the first 48 h (Wargacki et al. 2012).”
Algal Polysaccharides, Novel Applications and Outlook (2012, background): “With current 90% enzymatic conversion into ethanol (Wargacki et al., 2012) this would yield close to 2 billion litres of bioethanol.”
Life cycle assessment of macroalgae cultivation and processing for biofuel production (2014, positive): “Increasing the bioethanol yield of scenario 3 to the value that has been reported for Saccharina japonica (28.1 g/g) by Wargacki et al. (2012) increased the EROI to 3.19 and improved each of the environmental impacts over the base case.”
High-value products from macroalgae: the potential uses of the invasive brown seaweed, Sargassum muticum (2016, background): “(Critchley et al. 1990; Milledge et al. 2015; Wernberg et al. 2001) compared to terrestrial crops (sugarcane*75 %, grain maize 14–31”
Fungal endophytes: an untapped source of biocatalysts (2012, background): “Since alginates cannot be converted to ethanol by the microbes, Wargacki et al. (2012) successfully engineered E. coli (by reconstructing a pathway from Vibrio splendidus) to degrade, transport and metabolize alginates thus paving the route for direct biofuel production from seaweeds.”
The Enzymatic Conversion of Major Algal and Cyanobacterial Carbohydrates to Bioethanol (2016, background): “281 weight ethanol/weight dry macroalgae (Wargacki et al., 2012).”
Macroalgae-Derived Biofuel: A Review of Methods of Energy Extraction from Seaweed Biomass (2014, background): “[147] has found higher experimental ethanol yields of up to 0.”
The seaweed holobiont: understanding seaweed-bacteria interactions. (2013, background): “Moreover, if managed correctly, such degradation could potentially be used to facilitate effective decomposition relevant for converting macroalgal polymers into biofuels (Wargacki et al. , 2012), an area of increasing commercial interest.”