date:Jun 20, 2013
se these fatty acids.
Micoalgae such as Ehux are the primary producers of so-called fish oils, and given the abundance of this coccolithophore in our oceans, it means that this remarkable organism plays a critical and quirky role at the base of the foodwebs which provide omega-3 PUFAs, he said.
Professor Napier's team at Rothamsted Research, who receive strategic funding from BBSRC, has previously used fatty acid biosynthetic genes from algae to generate transgenic plants capable of synthesizi