Abstract：
:The world is facing energy crisis and environmental issues due to the depletion of fossil fuels and increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Growing microalgae can contribute to practical solutions for these global problems because they can harvest solar energy and capture CO2 by converting it into biofuel using photosynthesis. Microalgae are robust organisms capable of rapid growth under a variety of conditions including in open ponds or closed photobioreactors. Their reduced biomass compounds can be used as the feedstock for mass production of a variety of biofuels. As another advantage, their ability to accumulate or secrete biofuels can be controlled by changing their growth conditions or metabolic engineering. This review is aimed to highlight different forms of biofuels produced by microalgae and the approaches taken to improve their biofuel productivity. The costs for industrial-scale production of algal biofuels in open ponds or closed photobioreactors are analyzed. Different strategies for photoproduction of hydrogen by the hydrogenase enzyme of green algae are discussed. Algae are also good sources of biodiesel since some species can make large quantities of lipids as their biomass. The lipid contents for some of the best oil-producing strains of algae in optimized growth conditions are reviewed. The potential of microalgae for producing petroleum related chemicals or ready-make fuels such as bioethanol, triterpenic hydrocarbons, isobutyraldehyde, isobutanol, and isoprene from their biomass are also presented.
journal_name
Photosynth Resjournal_title
Photosynthesis researchauthors
Razeghifard Rdoi
10.1007/s11120-013-9828-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-11-01 00:00:00pages
207-19issue
1-3eissn
0166-8595issn
1573-5079journal_volume
117pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:The previous work in our lab showed that the spinach chloroplast ATP synthase epsilon mutant with 3 amino acid residues deleted from the N-terminus had much lower ability to inhibit ATP hydrolysis and block proton leakage in comparison to a mutant with 1 or 2 residues deleted from the N-terminus. The present study aim...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-004-6554-6
更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The content and composition of pigments and acyl lipids (monogalactosyl diacylglycerol, digalactosyl diacylglycerol and phosphatidyl glycerol) have been investigated in developing chloroplasts isolated from successive 2-cm sections along the leaves of wheat seedlings grown either under 100, 30 or 3 W·m(-2). In all exa...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00035244
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The dependence on temperature of tryptophan fluorescence lifetime in trimeric photosystem I (PSI) complexes from cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 during the heating of pre-frozen to - 180 °C in the dark or in the light-activated preparations has been studied. Fluorescence lifetime in samples frozen in the ligh...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-018-0595-8
更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The factors governing quinone protein binding in the photosynthetic bacterium Rps. viridis are investigated via use of empirical intermolecular energy calculations using the GRID method (PJ Goodford (1985) J Med Chem 28: 849-854). A probe atom corresponding to a carbonyl oxygen atom is used to investigate regions exhi...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00027142
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Photosystem I reaction centre protein CP1, isolated from barley using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed an EPR (Electron Paramgnetic Resonance) spectrum with the polarisation pattern AEEAAE, typical of the primary donor triplet state (3)P700, created via radical pair formation and recombination. (3)P700 co...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00034795
更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The major light-harvesting system in cyanobacteria, the phycobilisome, is an essential component of the photosynthetic apparatus that regulates the utilization of the natural light source-the Sun. Earlier works revealed that the thylakoid membrane composition and its physical properties might have an important role in...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-020-00776-1
更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The chloroplast genome of the highly neutral-lipid-producing marine pennate diatom Fistulifera sp. strain JPCC DA0580 was fully sequenced using high-throughput pyrosequencing. The general features and gene content were compared with three other complete diatom chloroplast genomes. The chloroplast genome is 134,918 bp ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-011-9622-8
更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The quenching of variable fluorescence yield (qN) and the quenching of dark level fluorescence yield (q0) directly atributable to high-energy-state fluorescence quenching (qE) was studied to distinguish between energy dissipation in the antenna and light harvesting complexes (antenna quenching) and energy dissipation ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00033161
更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Upon high light excitation in photosynthetic bacteria, various triplet states of pigments can accumulate leading to harmful effects. Here, the generation and lifetime of flash-induced carotenoid triplets (3Car) have been studied by observation of the quenching of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) fluorescence in different st...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-017-0434-3
更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cuttings of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay) were dark-forced at least three weeks. Pigment contents, 77 K fluorescence emission, excitation spectra of the leaves, petioles, stems, transmission electron micrographs of the etioplasts from leaves, the chlorenchyma tissues of the stems were analysed. The dark...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-004-1061-3
更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ten strains from a collection of mutants ofSynechocystis 6803 defective in Photosystem II (PS II) function were transformed with chromosomal DNA of wild-type and mutant cells. Cross hybridization data allowed to identify four groups of PS II-mutants. Highly efficient transformation was observed between different mutan...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF02187472
更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:When 23°C-grown potato leaves (Solanum tuberosum L.) were exposed for 15 min to elevated temperatures in weak light, a dramatic and preferential inactivation of Photosystem (PS) II was observed at temperatures higher than about 38°C. In vivo photoacoustic measurements indicated that, concomitantly with the loss of PS ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00017756
更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A chloroplast preparation was extracted from squash (Cucurbita pepo (L.) var. Senator). Enrichment of intact chloroplasts was achieved by continuous free-flow electrophoresis. The addition of monoterpenes, detergent and free fatty acids changed the elecrophoretic separation pattern characteristically. Monoterpene-depe...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00054124
更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Since 1986, non-uniform photosynthesis over the leaf area that may be attributed to patchy stomatal closure, has been an important issue in stress physiology of photosynthesis. In this review, I first outline the gaseous environment within the intercellular spaces, because this is the most fundamental background of th...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00035537
更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Precise control of the proton concentration gradient across thylakoid membranes (ΔpH) is essential for photosynthesis and its regulation because the gradient contributes to the generation of the proton motive force used for ATP synthesis and also for the fast and reversible induction of non-photochemical quenching (NP...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-018-0575-z
更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:MOA-stilbene is known to be a specific inhibitor of the Qo site of mammalian cytochrome bc 1 complex. We show that it also binds to the chloroplast cytochrome bf complex. Binding to the reduced enzyme induces a red-shift of the Soret and visible absorption bands of the haems b. Steady state and single turnover experim...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00029819
更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Macroalgae occur in the marine benthos from the upper intertidal to depths of more than 200 m, contributing up to 1 Pg C per year to global primary productivity. Freshwater macroalgae are mainly green (Chlorophyta) with some red (Rhodophyta) and a small contribution of brown (Phaeophyceae) algae, while in the ocean al...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s11120-012-9768-z
更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A comparative study of photosystem II complexes isolated from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. John William's Broadleaf) which contains normal stacked thylakoid membranes, and from two chlorophyll deficient tobacco mutants (Su/su and Su/su var. Aurea) which have low stacked grana or essentially unstacked thylakoids w...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00032264
更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The protonophoric uncouplers carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorophenol (PCP) and 4,5,6,7-tetrachloro-2-trifluoromethylbenzimidazole (TTFB) inhibited the Hill reaction with K3[Fe(CN)6] (but not with SiMo) in chloroplast and cyanobacterial membranes (the I50 values were approx. 1-2, 4-...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00032300
更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The storage of light energy in chemical form through photosynthesis is the key process underlying life as we know it. To utilize photosynthates efficiently as structural materials or as fuel to drive endergonic processes, they have to be transported from where they are produced to where they are needed. In this primer...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s11120-013-9867-5
更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The PAM-2000 portable chlorophyll fluorometer represents one of the first commercially available instruments utilizing the Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) measurement principle, and has become a widely used platform for measuring chlorophyll fluorescence in a wide range of study systems. In this paper, we describe a ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-005-9010-3
更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This article summarizes knowledge on genes and their respective proteins in the field of green algal hydrogen research. Emphasis is placed on recently cloned genes from the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, including HydA1 and HydA2, which encode homologous [Fe]-hydrogenases, Tla1, which encodes a chlo...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-004-2050-2
更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ferredoxin and the flavoprotein, ferredoxin: NADP reductase, have been covalently linked by incubation in the presence of a water soluble carbodiimide. The cross-linking reaction yields an adduct having a 1:1 stoichiometry. The adduct has depressed levels of diaphorase and NADPH oxidase activity and is inactive in red...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00035450
更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Effect of chemical oxidation by ferricyanide on bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein (FMO) was studied using absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy at ambient and cryogenic temperatures. Partially selective oxidation of pigments bound to the antenna complex was achieved and the probable...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-013-9878-2
更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The genome of the purple non-sulphur photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila has been found to contain multiple copies of puc light-harvesting (LH2) peripheral antenna complex genes. Three wild-type isolates each exhibiting dissimilar peripheral antenna complex phenotypes in response to growth at reduced ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00034783
更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Light activation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the leaves of the C4 plant Setaria verticillata (L.) is more pronounced at low CO2 levels. The 2-fold activation observed at physiological ambient CO2 becomes 3.64-fold at 5 μL/L and completely abolished above 700 μL/L. When the stomata close under the influence...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00034834
更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The coupling factor CF1 is a catalytic part of chloroplast ATP synthase which is exposed to stroma whose viscosity is many-fold higher than that of reaction mixtures commonly used to measure kinetics of CF1-catalyzed ATP hydrolysis. This study is focused on the effect of medium viscosity modulated by sucrose or bovine...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-015-0213-y
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Photosynthesis was well-established on the earth at least 3.5 thousand million years ago, and it is widely believed that these ancient organisms had similar metabolic capabilities to modern cyanobacteria. This requires that development of two photosystems and the oxygen evolution capability occurred very early in the...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the oxidation of water to O2 at the manganese-containing, oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). Photoexcitation of PSII results in the oxidation of the OEC; four sequential oxidation reactions are required for the generation and release of molecular oxygen. Therefore, with flash illumination, ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-007-9147-3
更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Little is known about the mechanistic basis for the movement of promiscuous nucleic acids across cell membranes. To address this problem we sought conditions that would permit the entry of plasmid DNA into isolated, intact pea chloroplasts. DNA uptake did not occur normally, but was induced by hypotonic treatments, by...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00020448
更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00
