The cultivation of microalgae as a feedstock for renewable fuels is widely touted as a way to sequester CO2 while negating food versus fuel competition for land. However, the widespread industrial use of microalgae for biofuels has yet to reach a critical stage based on lipid extraction alone. One alternative to the transesterification of microalgae for liquid fuel production is to use thermoch...

The photocatalytic degradation of Acid Red 26 was examined utilizing a graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) catalyst and UV-A light in this study. We investigated how successfully the approach removed from synthetic actual municipal wastewater. Both aqueous matrices allowed for extremely high clearance rates. Wastewater degraded at slower rate than other matrices, might be ascribed to wastewater’s...

It is well known that biological systems respond to chemical signals as well as physical stimuli. The workhorses of high throughput screening, microplates and pipetting robots, are well suited for screening chemical stimuli; however, there are fewer options for screening physical stimuli, particularly those which involve temporal patterns. This paper presents an optical microplate for photonic ...

When the chlorophyte alga Dunaliella tertiolecta Butcher is placed in darkness, a form of programmed cell death with many similarities to apoptosis is induced, including the induction of caspase-like proteases. Many uncertainties about the regulation and mediators that participate in the process remain. To examine the relationship between caspase-like activities and different apoptotic events (...

Dunaliella tertiolecta was disrupted mechanically and resolved by centrifugation into chloro­ plast* and cytosol-enriched fractions. Intact chloroplasts could not be isolated because peripheral extensions of the single large chloroplast reached almost to the flagellar pole o f the cell. The chloroplast envelope was closely appressed to the plasmalemma and, because o f this and its dimensions, w...

The eukaryotic green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta acclimates to decreased growth irradiance by increasing cellular levels of light-harvesting chlorophyll protein complex apoproteins associated with photosystem II (LHCIIs), whereas increased growth irradiance elicits the opposite response. Nuclear run-on transcription assays and measurements of cab mRNA stability established that light intensity-...