No doubt, algae has been a great feedstock to produce biofuel (biodisel) and attracted so much attention from researcher, industry, business people, investors, public policies, and goverment officials. Because of the 2008 Algae Summit, algae wind spread almost every corner of the world; algae is booming.
When talking algae about its potential being biofuel, , people may focus more on these facts: "algae can flourish in non-arable land or in dirty water, and when it does flourish, its potential oil yield per acre is unmatched by any other terrestrial feedstock". My question is: can we do the transgenetic modification by transfering the genes from high oil yield plants into algae to increase its oild yield? What are the technical barriers?
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