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Algal oil productivity gets a fat bonus

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Partitioning of carbon to lipids is engineered to improve oil accumulation in an industrial alga.

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Figure 1: Biomass partitioning in Nannochloropsis gaditana.

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Posewitz, M. Algal oil productivity gets a fat bonus. Nat Biotechnol 35, 636–638 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3920

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