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Isolation of herbicide-resistant mutants of Botryococcus braunii.
Bioresource technology - 1 Apr 2012
Ioki Motohide, Ohkoshi Masahiro, Nakajima Nobuyoshi, Nakahira-Yanaka Yuka, Watanabe Makoto M
Abstract excerpt
Aiming at herbicide-assisted cultivation of Botryococcus braunii for prevention of algal contamination, herbicide-tolerant mutant lines of B. braunii were established for two widely used herbicides, methyl viologen and glufosinate. Some established mutant lines exhibited vigorous oil production and growth in herbicide-containing media. Because the two herbicides were effective in controlling the growth of the...
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