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Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Volume 111, Number 7, July 2014
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.25064
Subject(s) - biomass (ecology) , renewable resource , volume (thermodynamics) , microbiology and biotechnology , renewable energy , engineering , biology , environmental science , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics
Cover Legend Chemicals and materials currently derived from fossil oil through petroleum refi neries can be produced through biorefi neries by employing high‐performance metabolically engineered microorganisms from various renewable biomass. See related article by Lee et. al., Biotechnology and Bioengineering , Volume 109, Number 10 (October 2012), pages 2437–2459. (Image courtesy of Sang Yup Lee and Yu‐Sin Jang at KAIST, Korea.)