Carotenogenesis in the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis: Cellular physiology and stress response

S Boussiba - Physiologia Plantarum, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… The unicellular green alga Haematococcus pluvialis Flotow has recently aroused considerable
interest due to its capacity to amass large amounts of the ketocarotenoid astaxanthin (3,3…

Morphological changes in the life cycle of the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis

M Kobayashi, Y Kurimura, T Kakizono, N Nishio… - Journal of Fermentation …, 1997 - Elsevier
alga Haematococcus pluvialis is a potent producer of … The algal cell number was counted
with a hemacytometer. For the … pluvialis was completed within only 2 weeks in our experimental …

An Efficient Method for Extraction of Astaxanthin from Green Alga Haematococcus pluvialis

R Sarada, R Vidhyavathi, D Usha… - Journal of agricultural …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Haematococcus pluvialis is one of the potent organisms for production of astaxanthin, a
high value ketocarotenoid. Astaxanthin is accumulated in thick-walled cyst cells of …

Astaxanthin Accumulation in the Green Alga Haematococcus pluvialis1

S Boussiba, A Vonshak - Plant and cell Physiology, 1991 - academic.oup.com
Cells of the green microalga Haematococcus pluvialis were induced to accumulate the
ketocarotenoid pigment, astaxanthin. This induction was achieved by the application of the …

Culture of the astaxanthin-producing green algaHaematococcus pluvialis 1. Effects of nutrients on growth and cell type

MA Borowitzka, JM Huisman, A Osborn - Journal of Applied Phycology, 1991 - Springer
… Several species of algae accumulate high concentrations of carotenoids such as f-carotene, …
Recently, there has been increased interest in microalgae which accumulate the ketocar…

[36] Enhancement and determination of astaxanthin accumulation in green alga Haematococcus pluvialis

S Boussiba, L Fan, A Vonshak - Methods in enzymology, 1992 - Elsevier
pluvialis. 2,7,s Other hypotheses concerning astaxanthin production in H. pluvialis argue …
cell division without impairing the ability of the alga to assimilate carbon 9 or that the carbon-…

Antioxidant role of astaxanthin in the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis

M Kobayashi, T Kakizono, N Nishio, S Nagai… - Applied Microbiology …, 1997 - Springer
The green unicellular alga, Haematococcus pluvialis has two antioxidative mechanisms
against environmental oxidative stress: antioxidative enzymes in vegetative cells and the …

Growth-inhibitory effects of the astaxanthin-rich alga Haematococcus pluvialis in human colon cancer cells

P Palozza, C Torelli, A Boninsegna, R Simone… - Cancer letters, 2009 - Elsevier
… This study has been designed to examine the effects of an extract of Haematococcus pluvialis,
pluvialis could be a particularly interesting anticancer substance, since the high cost of …

Astaxanthin production by a green alga, Haematococcus pluvialis accompanied with morphological changes in acetate media

M Kobayashi, T Kakizono, S Nagai - Journal of Fermentation and …, 1991 - Elsevier
… ied the algal medium composition for improved algal cell growth … in terms of the algal growth,
astaxanthin biosynthesis, and the algal … both for algal cell growth and carotenoid formation. …

Using green alga Haematococcus pluvialis for astaxanthin and lipid co-production: Advances and outlook

Y Ren, J Deng, J Huang, Z Wu, L Yi, Y Bi… - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
… involved in mediating abiotic stress of microalgae. As an important antioxidant and … Astaxanthin
refinery from Haematococcus pluvialis is now a growing industrial sector. H. pluvialis can …