TY - JOUR AU - Miranda, Ana F. AU - Biswas, Bijoy AU - Ramkumar, Narasimhan AU - Singh, Rawel AU - Kumar, Jitendra AU - James, Anton AU - Roddick, Felicity AU - Lal, Banwari AU - Subudhi, Sanjukta AU - Bhaskar, Thallada AU - Mouradov, Aidyn PY - 2016 DA - 2016/10/18 TI - Aquatic plant Azolla as the universal feedstock for biofuel production JO - Biotechnology for Biofuels SP - 221 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - The quest for sustainable production of renewable and cheap biofuels has triggered an intensive search for domestication of the next generation of bioenergy crops. Aquatic plants which can rapidly colonize wetlands are attracting attention because of their ability to grow in wastewaters and produce large amounts of biomass. Representatives of Azolla species are some of the fastest growing plants, producing substantial biomass when growing in contaminated water and natural ecosystems. Together with their evolutional symbiont, the cyanobacterium Anabaena azollae, Azolla biomass has a unique chemical composition accumulating in each leaf including three major types of bioenergy molecules: cellulose/hemicellulose, starch and lipids, resembling combinations of terrestrial bioenergy crops and microalgae. SN - 1754-6834 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-016-0628-5 DO - 10.1186/s13068-016-0628-5 ID - Miranda2016 ER -