| Impact ID |
Scientific Name
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Impact Type
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Study Type
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Study Location
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Impact Description
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Geographic Location
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Reference
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7520
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Cyclotella cryptica
|
Harvest
|
Experimental
|
Laboratory
|
Cyclotella cryptica is a species that is very important to the growing algal biofuels industry. When C. cryptica is grown in silicon-deficient conditions, it had significantly higher levels of lipid production making it better for mass liquid oil production.
|
|
32285
|
|
7521
|
Cyclotella cryptica
|
Harvest
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Researchers are currently attempting to genetically engineer other species of algae that contains the acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme found in C. cryptica in order to increase lipid content.
|
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32284
|