Can We Approach Theoretical Lipid Yields in Microalgae?

Microalgae for oil: Strain selection, induction of lipid synthesis and outdoor mass cultivation in a low-cost photobioreactor

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Lipid productivity as a key characteristic for choosing algal species for biodiesel production

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CRISPR/Cas9 in Genome Editing and Beyond

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High quality biodiesel production from a microalga Chlorella protothecoides by heterotrophic growth in fermenters

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Multiple High-Throughput Analyses Monitor the Response of E. coli to Perturbations

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Towards industrial products from microalgae

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The impact of nitrogen starvation on the dynamics of triacylglycerol accumulation in nine microalgae strains

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Harnessing Yarrowia lipolytica lipogenesis to create a platform for lipid and biofuel production

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Temperature effect on microalgae: A crucial factor for outdoor production

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Microalgae for the production of bulk chemicals and biofuels

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Biorefinery of microalgae for food and fuel

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

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Inhibition of starch synthesis results in overproduction of lipids in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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Metabolic engineering of lipid catabolism increases microalgal lipid accumulation without compromising growth

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CRISPR/Cas9-induced knockout and knock-in mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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A CRISPR/Cas9 system adapted for gene editing in marine algae

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Chlamydomonas starchless mutant defective in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase hyper-accumulates triacylglycerol

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Engineering for biofuels: exploiting innate microbial capacity or importing biosynthetic potential?

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The Response of Nannochloropsis gaditana to Nitrogen Starvation Includes De Novo Biosynthesis of Triacylglycerols, a Decrease of Chloroplast Galactolipids, and Reorganization of the Photosynthetic Apparatus

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Increased Lipid Accumulation in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii sta7-10 Starchless Isoamylase Mutant and Increased Carbohydrate Synthesis in Complemented Strains

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

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Genetic improvement of the microalga Phaeodactylum tricornutum for boosting neutral lipid accumulation

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The Evolution and Versatility of Microalgal Biotechnology: A Review

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Improvement of Neutral Lipid and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis by Overexpressing a Type 2 Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase in Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

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Effect of light intensity, pH, and temperature on triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation induced by nitrogen starvation in Scenedesmus obliquus

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Transgene Expression in Microalgae—From Tools to Applications

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High-Throughput Genotyping of Green Algal Mutants Reveals Random Distribution of Mutagenic Insertion Sites and Endonucleolytic Cleavage of Transforming DNA

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Edible oils from microalgae: insights in TAG accumulation

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Handbook of Marine Microalgae

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Simultaneous growth and neutral lipid accumulation in microalgae

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Progress toward isolation of strains and genetically engineered strains of microalgae for production of biofuel and other value added chemicals: A review

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Heterotrophic growth of microalgae: metabolic aspects

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Metabolic modeling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: energy requirements for photoautotrophic growth and maintenance

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Microalgae Isolation and Selection for Prospective Biodiesel Production

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Superior triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation in starchless mutants of Scenedesmus obliquus: (I) mutant generation and characterization

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Synergies between synthetic biology and metabolic engineering

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Nannochloropsis production metrics in a scalable outdoor photobioreactor for commercial applications

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Genomic Foundation of Starch-to-Lipid Switch in Oleaginous Chlorella spp.

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Initial risk assessment of genetically modified (GM) microalgae for commodity-scale biofuel cultivation

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High-density fed-batch culture of a thermotolerant microalga Chlorella sorokiniana for biofuel production

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Continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms: Approaches, applications and future trends

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Transcriptional Orchestration of the Global Cellular Response of a Model Pennate Diatom to Diel Light Cycling under Iron Limitation

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Evolution of salt tolerance in a laboratory reared population of C hlamydomonas reinhardtii

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Isolation and characterization of a starchless mutant of Chlorella pyrenoidosa STL‐PI with a high growth rate, and high protein and polyunsaturated fatty acid content

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Increased lipid productivity and TAG content in Nannochloropsis by heavy-ion irradiation mutagenesis

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Superior triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation in starchless mutants of Scenedesmus obliquus: (II) evaluation of TAG yield and productivity in controlled photobioreactors

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Antisense knockdown of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase promotes the neutral lipid accumulation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

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

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Multi-omics analysis reveals regulators of the response to nitrogen limitation in Yarrowia lipolytica

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Microalgal Classification

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Dynamics of triacylglycerol and EPA production in Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nitrogen starvation at different light intensities

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Predicting microalgae growth

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A fluorescence‐activated cell sorting‐based strategy for rapid isolation of high‐lipid C hlamydomonas mutants

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Effect of biomass concentration on secondary carotenoids and triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation in nitrogen-depleted Chlorella zofingiensis

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Design and construction of the microalgal pilot facility AlgaePARC

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Microfluidic high-throughput selection of microalgal strains with superior photosynthetic productivity using competitive phototaxis

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Improving Cell Growth and Lipid Accumulation in Green Microalgae Chlorella sp. via UV Irradiation

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Proteomic analyses bring new insights into the effect of a dark stress on lipid biosynthesis in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

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Dynamic Modeling of the Microalgae Cultivation Phase for Energy Production in Open Raceway Ponds and Flat Panel Photobioreactors

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Characterization of a novel thioesterase (PtTE) from Phaeodactylum tricornutum

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Differently localized lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferases crucial for triacylglycerol biosynthesis in the oleaginous alga Nannochloropsis

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Batch and semi-continuous microalgal TAG production in lab-scale and outdoor photobioreactors

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Continuous versus batch production of lipids in the microalgae Acutodesmus obliquus

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Heterotrophic cultivation of Nannochloropsis salina for enhancing biomass and lipid production

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Fast forward genetics to identify mutations causing a high light tolerant phenotype in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by whole-genome-sequencing

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Development of a forward genetic screen to isolate oil mutants in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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Enhanced lipid production in Nannochloropsis sp. using fluorescence-activated cell sorting

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Sorting cells of the microalga Chlorococcum littorale with increased triacylglycerol productivity

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Microalgal TAG production strategies: why batch beats repeated-batch

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Opportunities to improve the areal oil productivity of microalgae

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Correlation of pigment deprivation and ultrastructural organization of thylakoid membranes incryptomonas maculata following nutrient deficiency

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Photosynthetic efficiency and carbon partitioning in nitrogen-starved Scenedesmus obliquus

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pH-upshock yields more lipids in nitrogen-starved Neochloris oleoabundans

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Rapid method to screen and sort lipid accumulating microalgae

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Towards microalgal triglycerides in the commodity markets

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The inducible nitA promoter provides a powerful molecular switch for transgene expression in Volvox carteri

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Microalgal classification: major classes and genera of commercial microalgal species

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Biofuel production: tapping into microalgae despite challenges

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Chemical Mutagenesis of Microalgae Nannochloropsis sp. Using EMS (Ethyl Methanesulfonate)

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Exploiting the power of OMICS approaches to produceE. coliO157 vaccines

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Two-stage cultivation strategy for simultaneous increases in growth rate and lipid content of microalgae: A review

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Phaeodactylum tricornutum: A Diatom Cell Factory

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The Perspective of Large-Scale Production of Algae Biodiesel

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Hypes, hopes, and the way forward for microalgal biotechnology

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Genetic engineering of microalgae for enhanced lipid production

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