ArticleAmbio2016
From first generation biofuels to advanced solar biofuels.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Climate and ecological constraints of cultivating bioenergy crops for climate mitigation in tropical regions.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Analyzing the contributions of biofuels, biomass, and bioenergy to sustainable development goals.iScience · 2025Article
- Perspectives on current and future yeast technologies for ethanol-based biofuels and bioproducts.FEMS yeast research · 2025Review
- Methanol as a co-substrate with COApplied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Renewable Energy Potential: Second-Generation Biomass as Feedstock for Bioethanol Production.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Comparison of the effects of nitrogen-, sulfur- and combined nitrogen- and sulfur-deprivations on cell growth, lipid bodies and gene expressions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cc5373-sta6.BMC biotechnology · 2023Article
- The potential of biofuels from first to fourth generation.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Increasing Sugar Content in Source for Biofuel Production Using Agrochemical and Genetic Approaches at the Stages of BioMass Preharvesting and Harvesting.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Heterologous Lactate Synthesis inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Patterning of the Autotrophic, Mixotrophic, and Heterotrophic Proteomes of Oxygen-Evolving CyanobacteriumFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Nitrogen, phosphorus and high COPhotosynthesis research · 2021Article
- Simultaneous FeACS omega · 2021Article
- Bioethanol Production by Enzymatic Hydrolysis from Different Lignocellulosic Sources.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Bioprospecting of microbial strains for biofuel production: metabolic engineering, applications, and challenges.Biotechnology for biofuels · 2021Review
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- Redirecting photosynthetic electron flux in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by the deletion of flavodiiron protein Flv3.Microbial cell factories · 2019Article
- A force awakens: exploiting solar energy beyond photosynthesis.Journal of experimental botany · 2019Review
- Working with bacteria and putting bacteria to work: The biopolitics of synthetic biology for energy in the United Kingdom.Energy research & social science · 2017Article
- Biotechnological Strategies to Improve Plant Biomass Quality for Bioethanol Production.BioMed research international · 2017Review
- Determinants of stakeholders' attitudes towards biodiesel.Biotechnology for biofuels · 2017Article
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Abstract
Roadmaps towards sustainable bioeconomy, including the production of biofuels, in many EU countries mostly rely on biomass use. However, although biomass is renewable, the efficiency of biomass production is too low to be able to fully replace the fossil fuels. The use of land for fuel production also introduces ethical problems in increasing the food price. Harvesting solar energy by the photosynthetic machinery of plants and autotrophic microorganisms is the basis for all biomass production. This paper describes current challenges and possibilities to sustainably increase the biomass production and highlights future technologies to further enhance biofuel production directly from sunlight. The biggest scientific breakthroughs are expected to rely on a new technology called "synthetic biology", which makes engineering of biological systems possible. It will enable direct conversion of solar energy to a fuel from inexhaustible raw materials: sun light, water and CO2. In the future, such solar biofuels are expected to be produced in engineered photosynthetic microorganisms or in completely synthetic living factories.
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