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Title: Decreased light-harvesting antenna size in cyanobacteria

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1568740

The invention provides methods and compositions for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and biomass production in cyanobacterial cultures by minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size through disruption of the phycocyanin-encoding CPC-operon.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG36-05GO15041
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Number(s):
10,385,310
Application Number:
15/312,615
OSTI ID:
1568740
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 05/21/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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