Genetic Engineering: A Promising Tool to Engender Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Stress Resilience in Green Microalgae

An Indexed, Mapped Mutant Library Enables Reverse Genetics Studies of Biological Processes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2016) Xiaobo Li et al.   PLANT CELL

Multi-Level Light Capture Control in Plants and Green Algae

(2016) Lutz Wobbe et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Synthetic promoters capable of driving robust nuclear gene expression in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2016) Melissa A. Scranton et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Exogenous Gene Integration for Microalgal Cell Transformation Using a Nanowire-Incorporated Microdevice

(2015) Sunwoong Bae et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Gene silencing in microalgae: Mechanisms and biological roles

(2015) Eun-Jeong Kim et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Microalgae–microbial fuel cell: A mini review

(2015) Duu-Jong Lee et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Improving microalgae for biotechnology — From genetics to synthetic biology

(2015) Monika Hlavova et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Construction of a self-cloning system in the unicellular green alga Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea

(2015) Yuki Kasai et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

RNA-Seq transcriptomic analysis with Bag2D software identifies key pathways enhancing lipid yield in a high lipid-producing mutant of the non-model green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta

(2015) Lina Yao et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Microalgae – A promising tool for heavy metal remediation

(2015) K. Suresh Kumar et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Biotechnological exploitation of microalgae

(2015) Doris Gangl et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Non-photochemical quenching and xanthophyll cycle activities in six green algal species suggest mechanistic differences in the process of excess energy dissipation

(2015) Theresa Quaas et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Regulation of Photosynthesis during Abiotic Stress-Induced Photoinhibition

(2015) Mayank Anand Gururani et al.   Molecular Plant

Beyond editing: repurposing CRISPR–Cas9 for precision genome regulation and interrogation

(2015) Antonia A. Dominguez et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Photosynthetic bio-manufacturing: food, fuel, and medicine for the 21st century

(2015) Stephen Mayfield et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Codon reassignment to facilitate genetic engineering and biocontainment in the chloroplast ofChlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2015) Rosanna E. B. Young et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Chlamydomonas as a model for biofuels and bio-products production

(2015) Melissa A. Scranton et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Metabolic engineering toward enhanced LC-PUFA biosynthesis in Nannochloropsis oceanica : Overexpression of endogenous Δ12 desaturase driven by stress-inducible promoter leads to enhanced deposition of polyunsaturated fatty acids in TAG

(2015) Yuval Kaye et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Photosynthetic response to nitrogen starvation and high light in Haematococcus pluvialis

(2015) Luca Scibilia et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

In Metabolic Engineering of Eukaryotic Microalgae: Potential and Challenges Come with Great Diversity

(2015) Javier A. Gimpel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Perspectives on engineering strategies for improving biofuel production from microalgae — A critical review

(2014) Shih-Hsin Ho et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Overexpression of the soybean transcription factor GmDof4 significantly enhances the lipid content of Chlorella ellipsoidea

(2014) Jianhui Zhang et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Successful Transient Expression of Cas9 and Single Guide RNA Genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2014) Wenzhi Jiang et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Algae Sense Exact Temperatures: Small Heat Shock Proteins Are Expressed at the Survival Threshold Temperature in Cyanidioschyzon merolae and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2014) Yusuke Kobayashi et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Overview of the potential of microalgae for CO2 sequestration

(2014) V. Bhola et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Relaxation of the non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching in diatoms: kinetics, components and mechanisms

(2014) K. Rohacek et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transcriptional Regulation of the Stress-Responsive Light Harvesting Complex Genes in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

(2014) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Enhanced Genetic Tools for Engineering Multigene Traits into Green Algae

(2014) Beth A. Rasala et al.   PLoS One

The protein Compromised Hydrolysis of Triacylglycerols 7 (CHT7) acts as a repressor of cellular quiescence in Chlamydomonas

(2014) C.-H. Tsai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TALE activation of endogenous genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2014) Han Gao et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Microalgae for high-value compounds and biofuels production: A review with focus on cultivation under stress conditions

(2013) Giorgos Markou et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

High-CO2 tolerance in microalgae: possible mechanisms and implications for biotechnology and bioremediation

(2013) Alexei Solovchenko et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

A Dual Strategy to Cope with High Light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2013) G. Allorent et al.   PLANT CELL

Transcriptomics: Advances and approaches

(2013) ZhiCheng Dong et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Advances in genetic engineering of marine algae

(2012) Song Qin et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Method to assemble and integrate biochemical pathways into the chloroplast genome ofChlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2012) Samaneh Noor-Mohammadi et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Carotenoid and fatty acid metabolism in nitrogen-starved Dunaliella salina, a unicellular green microalga

(2012) Packo P. Lamers et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Exploring the molecular basis of responses to light in marine diatoms

(2012) F. A. Depauw et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Accumulation of lipid production in Chlorella minutissima by triacylglycerol biosynthesis-related genes cloned from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica

(2012) Hsin-Ju Hsieh et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

PredAlgo: A New Subcellular Localization Prediction Tool Dedicated to Green Algae

(2012) Marianne Tardif et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Roles of acyl-CoA: Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase 2 Genes in the Biosynthesis of Triacylglycerols by the Green Algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2012) Xiao-Dong Deng et al.   Molecular Plant

Deployment of new biotechnologies in plant breeding

(2012) Maria Lusser et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nuclear gene targeting inChlamydomonasusing engineered zinc-finger nucleases

(2012) Irina Sizova et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Algal chemodiversity and bioactivity: Sources of natural variability and implications for commercial application

(2011) Dagmar B. Stengel et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Algal Functional Annotation Tool: a web-based analysis suite to functionally interpret large gene lists using integrated annotation and expression data

(2011) David Lopez et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

AlgaGEM – a genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of algae based on the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome

(2011) Cristiana Gomes de Oliveira Dal’Molin et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Algae biofuels: versatility for the future of bioenergy

(2011) Carla S Jones et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The GreenCut2 Resource, a Phylogenomically Derived Inventory of Proteins Specific to the Plant Lineage

(2011) Steven J. Karpowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Microalgae as platforms for production of recombinant proteins and valuable compounds: progress and prospects

(2011) Yangmin Gong et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metabolic network reconstruction of Chlamydomonas offers insight into light-driven algal metabolism

(2011) R. L. Chang et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Improved heterologous protein expression in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through promoter and 5′ untranslated region optimization

(2011) Beth A. Rasala et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Improved biohydrogen production with an expression of codon-optimized hemH and lba genes in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2010) Shuangxiu Wu et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Overexpression of an exogenous phytoene synthase gene in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii leads to an increase in the content of carotenoids

(2010) I. Couso et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Functional Hybrid Rubisco Enzymes with Plant Small Subunits and Algal Large Subunits

(2010) Todor Genkov et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Inorganic carbon acquisition by eukaryotic algae: four current questions

(2010) John A. Raven   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Secondary ketocarotenoid astaxanthin biosynthesis in algae: a multifunctional response to stress

(2010) Yves Lemoine et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Regulation and function of xanthophyll cycle-dependent photoprotection in algae

(2010) Reimund Goss et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Advancing Our Understanding and Capacity to Engineer Nature's CO2-Sequestering Enzyme, Rubisco

(2010) S. M. Whitney et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

HIGH-LIGHT AND SODIUM CHLORIDE STRESS DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATE THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF ASTAXANTHIN INCHLORELLA ZOFINGIENSIS(CHLOROPHYCEAE)

(2009) Yantao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

The Dynamics of Photosynthesis

(2008) Stephan Eberhard et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Effects of temperature on photosynthetic parameters and TEP production in eight species of marine microalgae

(2008) P Claquin et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Nuclear gene targeting in Chlamydomonas as exemplified by disruption of the PHOT gene

(2008) Boris Zorin et al.   GENE

Applications of next-generation sequencing technologies in functional genomics

(2008) Olena Morozova et al.   GENOMICS

Inhibition of pds Gene Expression via the RNA Interference Approach in Dunaliella salina (Chlorophyta)

(2008) Guohua Sun et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Chlorella sorokiniana UTEX 2805, a heat and intense, sunlight-tolerant microalga with potential for removing ammonium from wastewater

(2007) Luz E. de-Bashan et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY