Unlike other microbes before, researchers found it can attack the primary sugar constituent in seaweed, known as alginate.
“Our scientists have engineered an enzyme to degrade and a pathway to metabolize the alginate, allowing us to utilize all the major sugars in seaweed, said Daniel Trunfio, chief executive at Bio Architecture Lab.
The advance “makes the biomass an economical feedstock for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals,” he said.
A company spokesman told AFP that the lab currently has four aquafarming sites in Chile where it hopes to “scale up its microbe technology as the next step on the path to commercialization” in the next three years.
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