A review on sustainable microalgae based biofuel and bioenergy production: Recent developments

A Raheem, P Prinsen, AK Vuppaladadiyam… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate changes induced by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (mainly carbon
dioxide) is one of the major threats of the modern era. Primary causes are the high reliance …

Insights into the genetic and metabolic engineering approaches to enhance the competence of microalgae as biofuel resource: a review

A Brar, M Kumar, T Soni, V Vivekanand… - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional fuel resources are overburden with speedy global energy demand which
ensued the urgent need of alternate energy resources. Biofuel generation efficiency of …

Lipid production in Nannochloropsis gaditana is doubled by decreasing expression of a single transcriptional regulator

I Ajjawi, J Verruto, M Aqui, LB Soriaga… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Lipid production in the industrial microalga Nannochloropsis gaditana exceeds that of model
algal species and can be maximized by nutrient starvation in batch culture. However …

Genome editing of model oleaginous microalgae Nannochloropsis spp. by CRISPR/Cas9

Q Wang, Y Lu, Y Xin, L Wei, S Huang, J Xu - The Plant Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Microalgae are promising feedstock for biofuels yet mechanistic probing of their cellular
network and industrial strain development have been hindered by lack of genome‐editing …

Ultrastructure and composition of the Nannochloropsis gaditana cell wall

MJ Scholz, TL Weiss, RE Jinkerson, J Jing, R Roth… - Eukaryotic …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine algae of the genus Nannochloropsis are promising producers of biofuel precursors
and nutraceuticals and are also harvested commercially for aquaculture feed. We have used …

Choreography of Transcriptomes and Lipidomes of Nannochloropsis Reveals the Mechanisms of Oil Synthesis in Microalgae

J Li, D Han, D Wang, K Ning, J Jia, L Wei, X Jing… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
To reveal the molecular mechanisms of oleaginousness in microalgae, transcriptomic and
lipidomic dynamics of the oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica IMET1 under …

Sex is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life

D Speijer, J Lukeš, M Eliáš - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Sexual reproduction and clonality in eukaryotes are mostly seen as exclusive, the latter
being rather exceptional. This view might be biased by focusing almost exclusively on …

Molecular mechanisms for photosynthetic carbon partitioning into storage neutral lipids in Nannochloropsis oceanica under nitrogen-depletion conditions

J Jia, D Han, HG Gerken, Y Li, M Sommerfeld, Q Hu… - Algal research, 2015 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are a major carbon/energy-reservoir in microalgae, yet their relationship
with another form of carbon/energy storage, triacylglycerol (TAG), is poorly understood. Here …

Intron-containing algal transgenes mediate efficient recombinant gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

T Baier, J Wichmann, O Kruse… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Among green freshwater microalgae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has the most
comprehensive and developed molecular toolkit, however, advanced genetic and metabolic …

Improving lipid production by strain development in microalgae: strategies, challenges and perspectives

S Park, THT Nguyen, ES Jin - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, the number of original articles and reviews presenting microalgae as
a promising feedstock for biodiesel has increased tremendously. Many improvements of …