Biofuel quest: Genome signatures enable tracking of algal complexity
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 01:14
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have presented the 138-million-nucleotide genome of the multicellular alga Volvox carteri. Scientists are researching the complex mechanisms present in photosynthetic organisms to better understand how they convert sunlight to energy and how photosynthetic cells control their metabolic processes so that this information can inform the production of renewable biofuels.