Green Algae Biomass Cultivation, Harvesting and Genetic Modifications for Enhanced Cellular Lipids

Kumar, Pankaj; Kumar, Devendra; Nehra, Priyanka; Sharma, Pragya

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7140-9_6

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“…However, the sustainability of these approaches largely depends on the cost incurred during the culturing process of microalgal strains. As large-scale open pond culture is the most economic method for microalgae biomass production, the majority of the commercial microalgae are cultured by this system (Kumar et al, 2018). Thus, open pond culturing of genetically modified (GM) microalgae appears more promising in cutting down the cost; however, the impact on human health and environmental risks form the major concerns with transgenic microalgae if exposed to natural ecosystems (Rastogi et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tailoring Microalgae for Efficient Biofuel Production

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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 have emerged as a potential feedstock for biofuel production as many strains accumulate higher amounts of lipid, with faster biomass growth and higher photosynthetic yield than their land plant counterparts. In addition to this, microalgae can be cultured without needing agricultural land or ecological landscapes and offer opportunities for mitigating global climate change, allowing waste water treatment and carbon dioxide sequestration. Despite these benefits, microalgae pose many challenges, including low lipid yield under limiting growth conditions and slow growth in high lipid content strains. Biotechnological interventions can make major advances in strain improvement for the commercial scale production of biofuel. We discuss various strategies, including efficient transformation toolbox, to increase lipid accumulation and its quality through the regulation of key enzymes involved in lipid production, by blocking the competing pathways, pyramiding genes, enabling high cell biomass under nutrient-deprived conditions and other environmental stresses, and controlling the upstream regulators of targets, the transcription factors, and microRNAs. We highlight the opportunities emerging from the current progress in the application of genome editing in microalgae for accelerating the strain improvement program.

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confidence: 99%