The intracellular phosphorus and carbon metabolites in the halotolerant alga Dunaliella salina adapted to different salinities were monitored in living cells by 31Pand "3C-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The 13C-NMR studies showed that the composition of the visible intracellular carbon metabolites other than glycerol is not signiflcantly affected by the salinity of the growth me...

Four group I introns from the nuclear-encoded (18S) rRNA genes of three chlorophycean green algae are described; two are in Dunaliella parva, and one each is in D. salina and Characium saccatum. The introns within the gene in the latter two organisms are located at the sites equivalent to the 5' and 3' introns of D. parva, respectively. All four introns lack open reading frames and are relative...

Shenbaga Devi, A., P. Santhanam, V. Rekha, S. Ananth, B. Balaji Prasath, R. Nandakumar, S. Jeyanthi and S. Dinesh Kumar Culture and biofuel producing efficacy of marine microalgae Dunaliella salina and Nannochloropsis sp. J. Algal Biomass Utln. 2012, 3 (4): 38–4 Abstract Biodiesel from oil crops, waste cooking oil and animal fat cannot realistically satisfy even a small fraction of the existing...

This short communication reports a pioneering research of using bacteria for simultaneous algal cell disruption and cell wall/membrane utilization. Microalgae are regarded as one of the most promising feedstock that can potentially address the twin challenges of energy security and environmental protection due to their fast growth rate, high lipid content and CO2 biofixation capabilities. Howev...

Because of limitations of production of unicellular green algae (especially in large volumes), this study aimed to culture Artemia using three sources of cheap agricultural by-products that were coupled with small amounts of unicellular algae Dunaliella salina. The results of growth and survival, biomass production, Individual wet weight, wet and ash percent, FCR and SGR and nutritional value o...

The halotolerant microalga Dunaliella salina has been widely studied for natural 10 β-carotene production. This work shows biochemical characterization of three newly isolated 11 Dunaliella salina strains DF15, DF17 and DF40 compared with D. salina CCAP 19/30 (confirmed to 12 be D. tertiolecta) and D. salina UTEX 2538 (also known as D. bardawil). Although all three new strains 13 have been gene...

In green algae, the final step of the plastidial methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway is catalyzed by 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase (HDR; EC: 1.17.1.2), an enzyme proposed to play a key role in the regulation of isoprenoid biosynthesis. Here we report the isolation and functional characterization of a 1959-bp Dunaliella salina HDR (DsHDR) cDNA encoding a deduced polypep...

Because of limitations of production of unicellular green algae (especially in large volumes), this study aimed to culture Artemia using three sources of cheap agricultural by-products that were coupled with small amounts of unicellular algae Dunaliella salina. The results of growth and survival, biomass production, Individual wet weight, wet and ash percent, FCR and SGR and nutritional value o...

because of limitations of production of unicellular green algae (especially in large volumes), this study aimed to culture artemia using three sources of cheap agricultural by-products that were coupled with small amounts of unicellular algae dunaliella salina. the results of growth and survival, biomass production, individual wet weight, wet and ash percent, fcr and sgr and nutritional value o...