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is at an early stage. So, prospects for autotrophic microalgal lipid-based biofuels appear to be
largely dependent on breakthroughs in production technology which may, or may not, occur.

Acknowledgements

The comments of the anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.

NOTES

* Correspondence to: l.reijnders@uva.nl

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