2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of a new strain of Botryococcus braunii with high growth rate and high productivity of hydrocarbon

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21651035
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Environmental technology/Environmental materials
Research Institution	Kobe University
Principal Investigator	ENOMOTO Taira 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (00127622)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	ボツリオコッカス / 重油生産藻類 / 炭化水素 / 榎本藻 / CO2削減 / rbcS遺伝子 / 光合成 / 藻類燃料
Research Abstract	In order to isolate a new strain of Botryococcus braunii with high growth rate and high productivity of hydrocarbon, we collected wild Botryococcus braunii from lakes of westernpart of Japan, and tried to select high capacity of growth and hydrocarbon productivity. As a result, We have developed a new type of Botryococcus braunii strain which have the ability of high growth rate and highly productive capacity of Hydrocarbon.

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