Recent developments in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering in microalgae towards biofuel production

S Jagadevan, A Banerjee, C Banerjee, C Guria… - Biotechnology for …, 2018 - Springer
In the wake of the uprising global energy crisis, microalgae have emerged as an alternate
feedstock for biofuel production. In addition, microalgae bear immense potential as bio-cell …

Mixotrophic cultivation of microalgae: an alternative to produce high-value metabolites

T Castillo, D Ramos, T García-Beltrán… - Biochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microalgae are important sources of biotechnological products, including pigments, lipids,
polyunsaturated fatty acids, polysaccharides, vitamins, and other bioactive compounds …

A critical perspective on the scope of interdisciplinary approaches used in fourth-generation biofuel production

V Godbole, MK Pal, P Gautam - Algal Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of algae in biofuel production is more sustainable as compared to crop-based
resources as it doesn't compromise food security, rainforests, or arable land. Furthermore …

A critical review of genome editing and synthetic biology applications in metabolic engineering of microalgae and cyanobacteria

IS Ng, BB Keskin, SI Tan - Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Being the green gold of the future, microalgae and cyanobacteria have recently attracted
considerable interest worldwide, for their metabolites such as lipids, protein, pigments, and …

Modelling and process optimization for biodiesel production from Nannochloropsis salina using artificial neural network

JVA Raj, RP Kumar, B Vijayakumar… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present investigation, calcium oxide solid nanocatalyst derived from the egg shell and
Nannochloropsis salina were used for the production of biodiesel. The morphological …

Integrated biomolecular and bioprocess engineering strategies for enhancing the lipid yield from microalgae

B Behera, Y Unpaprom, R Ramaraj, GP Maniam… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Algal biofuels have received wide attention in recent years for its potential to reduce the
dependence on conventional fossil fuels. Despite the portrayed advantages of high growth …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and applications of adaptive laboratory evolution in industrial microorganisms

SR Lee, P Kim - Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) is an evolutionary engineering approach in artificial
conditions that improves organisms through the imitation of natural evolution. Due to the …

Reconstruction of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of Scenedesmus obliquus and Its Application for Lipid Production under Three Trophic Modes

A Ray, P Kundu, A Ghosh - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Green microalgae have emerged as beneficial feedstocks for biofuel production. A systems-
level understanding of the biochemical network is needed to harness the microalgal …

Advanced genetic tools enable synthetic biology in the oleaginous microalgae Nannochloropsis sp.

E Poliner, EM Farré, C Benning - Plant cell reports, 2018 - Springer
Nannochloropsis is a genus of fast-growing microalgae that are regularly used for
biotechnology applications. Nannochloropsis species have a high triacylglycerol content …

Identification of gene function based on models capturing natural variability of Arabidopsis thaliana lipid metabolism

SC Córdoba, H Tong, A Burgos, F Zhu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lipids play fundamental roles in regulating agronomically important traits. Advances in plant
lipid metabolism have until recently largely been based on reductionist approaches …