Many species of microalgae have been used as source of nutrient rich food, feed, and health
promoting compounds. Among the commercially important microalgae, Haematococcus …

Soil salinity is a crucial environmental constraint which limits biomass production at many
sites on a global scale. Saline growth conditions cause osmotic and ionic imbalances …

Under stressful environments, many green algae such as Haematococcus pluvialis
accumulate secondary ketocarotenoids such as canthaxanthin and astaxanthin. The …

Major progress has been made in the past decade towards understanding of the
biosynthesis of red carotenoid astaxanthin and its roles in stress response while exploiting …

Haematococcus pluvialis cells predominantly remain in the macrozooid stage under
favourable environmental conditions but are rapidly differentiated into haematocysts upon …

Photosynthetic microalgae have attracted significant attention as they can serve as important
sources for cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical products, industrial materials and even …

There is an increasing demand for astaxanthin in food, feed, cosmetics and pharmaceutical
applications because of its superior anti-oxidative and coloring properties. However …

Plastids have retained from their cyanobacterial ancestor a fragment of the respiratory
electron chain comprising an NADPH dehydrogenase and a diiron oxidase, which sustain …

Background Biofuel has been the focus of intensive global research over the past few years.
The development of 4 th generation biofuel production (algae-to-biofuels) based on …

By homology with the unique plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) found in plants, two genes
encoding oxidases have been found in the Chlamydomonas genome, PTOX1 and PTOX2 …