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DOE Awards $1.6M for Investigation of Hydrogen Production by Thermotoga Bacteria

Posted on July 31, 2008

Thermotoga maritima (green/yellow rods) growing in co-culture with Methanococcus jannaschii (red spheres). T. maritima ferments sugars to hydrogen and M. jannaschii converts hydrogen to methane.The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $1.6 million to a team led by North Carolina State University to learn more about the microbiology, genetics and genomics of thermotogales extremophile bacteria that produce large amounts of hydrogen with unusually high efficiencies. (Earlier post.)An earlier project funded by the DOE found that one representative of this order, Thermotoga neapolitana, con...

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biofuels , ethanol , hydrogen