Recent progress in genetically modified microalgae for enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration

B Barati, K Zeng, J Baeyens, S Wang, M Addy… - Biomass and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions has been a hot research topic in recent years.
The integration of microalgae cultivation using CO 2 from power plants and factories has …

Potential and challenges of improving photosynthesis in algae

V Vecchi, S Barera, R Bassi, L Dall'Osto - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sunlight energy largely exceeds the energy required by anthropic activities, and therefore its
exploitation represents a major target in the field of renewable energies. The interest in the …

Tailoring microalgae for efficient biofuel production

PK Sharma, M Saharia, R Srivstava… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Depleting fossil fuel, soaring prices, growing demand, and global climate change concerns
have driven the research for finding an alternative source of sustainable fuel. Microalgae …

Improving microalgae for biotechnology—From genetics to synthetic biology–Moving forward but not there yet

V Kselíková, A Singh, V Bialevich, M Čížková… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microalgae are a diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that can be exploited for the
production of different compounds, ranging from crude biomass and biofuels to high value …

Advances in genetic engineering in improving photosynthesis and microalgal productivity

J Hu, D Wang, H Chen, Q Wang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Even though sunlight energy far outweighs the energy required by human activities, its
utilization is a key goal in the field of renewable energies. Microalgae have emerged as a …

Role of an ancient light-harvesting protein of PSI in light absorption and photoprotection

Y Lu, Q Gan, M Iwai, A Alboresi, A Burlacot… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Diverse algae of the red lineage possess chlorophyll a-binding proteins termed LHCR,
comprising the PSI light-harvesting system, which represent an ancient antenna form that …

Site-Specific Gene Knock-Out and On-Site Heterologous Gene Overexpression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii via a CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Knock-in Method

J Kim, S Lee, K Baek, ES Jin - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is being transformed from a model organism to an industrial
organism for the production of pigments, fatty acids, and pharmaceuticals. Genetic …

TIM, a targeted insertional mutagenesis method utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

T Picariello, Y Hou, T Kubo, NA McNeill… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Generation and subsequent analysis of mutants is critical to understanding the functions of
genes and proteins. Here we describe TIM, an efficient, cost-effective, CRISPR-based …

Establishment of a Genome Editing Tool Using CRISPR-Cas9 in Chlorella vulgaris UTEX395

J Kim, KS Chang, S Lee, ES Jin - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
To date, Chlorella vulgaris is the most used species of microalgae in the food and feed
additive industries, and also considered as a feasible cell factory for bioproducts. However …

Achievements and challenges of genetic engineering of the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

NT Tran, R Kaldenhoff - Algal research, 2020 - Elsevier
The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been used as a model organism
in different research fields for the last 70 years. A variety of methods have been developed …