Scientists and engineers in biochemistry, biotechnology, and related fields survey developments and prospects for producing biofuel molecules such as hydrogen, methane, ethanol, butanol, higher chain alcohols, isoprenoids, and fatty acid derivatives by metabolically engineered microbes such as bacteria, yeast, and microalgae. Among the topics are metabolic engineering as the key for improving biological hydrogen production, engineering recombinant organisms for next-generation ethanol production, higher chain alcohols from non-fermentative pathways, engineering microbial fatty acid biosynthetic pathways to make advanced biofuels, and biofuel production by genetically engineered cyanobacteria. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
