Lipid Droplets Mediate Salt Stress Tolerance in Parachlorella kessleri 1

Highly efficient lipid production in the green alga Parachlorella kessleri: draft genome and transcriptome endorsed by whole-cell 3D ultrastructure

BACKGROUND Algae have attracted attention as sustainable producers of lipid-containing biomass for food, animal feed, and for biofuels. Parachlorella kessleri, a unicellular green alga belonging to the class Trebouxiophyceae, achieves very high biomass, lipid, and starch productivity levels. However, further biotechnological exploitation has been hampered by a lack of genomic information. RES...

Deciphering the relationship among phosphate dynamics, electron-dense body and lipid accumulation in the green alga Parachlorella kessleri

Phosphorus is an essential element for life on earth and is also important for modern agriculture, which is dependent on inorganic fertilizers from phosphate rock. Polyphosphate is a biological polymer of phosphate residues, which is accumulated in organisms during the biological wastewater treatment process to enhance biological phosphorus removal. Here, we investigated the relationship betwee...

Salinity Stress and Salt Tolerance

Salinity is one of the most serious factors limiting the productivity of agricultural crops, with adverse effects on germination, plant vigour and crop yield (R Munns & Tester, 2008). Salinization affects many irrigated areas mainly due to the use of brackish water. Worldwide, more than 45 million hectares of irrigated land have been damaged by salt, and 1.5 million hectares are taken out of pr...

Salt stress signaling and mechanisms of plant salt tolerance.

SALT STRESS SIGNALING AND MECHANISMS OF PLANT SALT TOLERANCE Viswanathan Chinnusamy and Jian-Kang Zhu 1, Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India; 2, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Reverside, California 92521, USA For correspondence: Email: [email protected]; fa...

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