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The physical and chemical properties of limonene, a C10 isoprenoid with applications in green solvents, pharmaceuticals, perfumes, and food flavorings
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An overview of efforts to genetically engineer cyanobacteria to synthesize limonene
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Perspectives on developing integrated systems to produce limonene at the industrial-scale
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Halfmann, C., Gu, L., Gibbons, W., Zhou, R. (2018). Synthetic Biology Enables Photosynthetic Production of Limonene from CO2 and H2O. In: Sani, R., Krishnaraj Rathinam, N. (eds) Extremophilic Microbial Processing of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels, Value-Added Products, and Usable Power. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74459-9_9
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