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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2011
Applicant:
Pamela R. Contag, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Pamela R. Contag, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/02 (2006.01); C12P 7/06 (2006.01); C12P 7/14 (2006.01); C12P 7/16 (2006.01); C12N 11/00 (2006.01); C12N 11/16 (2006.01); C12P 39/00 (2006.01); C12N 1/12 (2006.01); C12P 7/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 39/00 (2013.01); C12N 1/12 (2013.01); C12P 7/06 (2013.01); C12P 7/16 (2013.01); C12P 7/6463 (2013.01); Y02E 50/10 (2013.01); Y02E 50/17 (2013.01); Y02E 50/343 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention provides co-cultures of photosynthetic microorganisms and biofuel producing microorganisms. In certain embodiments, polysaccharide-producing, photosynthetic microorganisms are microalgae having frustules provide a substrate on which biofuel-producing microorganisms can grow. In other embodiments, the photosynthetic microorganisms produce a lipid and the non-photosynthetic microorganisms produce a solvent in which the lipid is soluble.