Microalgae ‘bulging with biofuel potential’

Updated December 23 2015 - 2:03pm, first published July 10 2012 - 2:12pm
SARDI Phytoplankton Biologist Dr Sasi Nayar with biofuel extracted from a 'super strain' of microalgae species, Nannochloropsis (green algae), which has high lipid and protein content.
SARDI Phytoplankton Biologist Dr Sasi Nayar with biofuel extracted from a 'super strain' of microalgae species, Nannochloropsis (green algae), which has high lipid and protein content.

MISA researchers from SARDI have isolated and evaluated a ‘super strain’ of a native microalgae species that could form the basis of a local biofuels industry.

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