Abstract Microalgal biotechnology promises a sustainable production of valuable bioproducts. Thanks to their photosynthetic nature, they are able convert atmospheric CO 2 into various products, ranging from simple biomass, platform chemicals for bioplastics high value compounds the pharmaceutical and fragrance industry. Here we present important improvements engineering strategies advance micro...

Over the last decades economies around the globe have transformed into a knowledge-based economy (KBE). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has served as the principal enabling technology for this transformation. Now biology becomes another major pillar – producing a knowledge-based bio-economy (KBBE). The challenges faced by biotechnology push the requirements for ICT in many ways t...

As future biotechnology applications utilize recombinant proteins as commercial products, nondestructive assays will be necessary to determine protein concentrations accurately within plant tissues. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has been proposed as a potential marker for the monitoring of transgenic plants and quantifying recombinant protein levels under field conditions. This chapter discus...

BACKGROUND In the past decade, an enormous number of new bioprocesses have evolved in the biotechnology industry. These bioprocesses have to be developed fast and at a maximum productivity. Up to now, only few microbioreactors were developed to fulfill these demands and to facilitate sample processing. One predominant reaction platform is the shaken microtiter plate (MTP), which provides high-t...

Fluorescent proteins (FPs) have revolutionized many areas of biological research. In particular, plant biotechnology has been significantly advanced by harnessing the power of FPs. Aequorea victoria, green fluorescent protein (GFP), has been the most studied of the proteins, but many new FPs are discovered each year. We provide here a timely review of the current uses of FPs in whole plants and...

None the less, as Pfeffer has argued, while statesmen and medical experts have continually diminished the issue of infertility, it is a problem for thousands of women and men, who have not borne their plight in silence. Throughout the century doctors' surgeries and hospitals have been filled with people desperate for a cure. In her fascinating and detailed account of the different techniques fo...

Once a biological novelty known for their role in bioluminescence, fluorescent proteins (FPs) from marine invertebrates have revolutionized the life sciences. Organisms from all kingdoms have been transformed with the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP), and biotechnology has been advanced by the use of FPs. This article reviews the current uses of FPs in whole transgenic organism...

We use molecular simulations using a coarse-grained model to map the folding landscape of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), which is extensively used as a marker in cell biology and biotechnology. Thermal and Guanidinium chloride (GdmCl) induced unfolding of a variant of GFP, without the chromophore, occurs in an apparent two-state manner. The calculated midpoint of the equilibrium folding in Gd...

Introduction Access to agricultural technology is seen as important for increasing food security and promoting development in many low-income countries (Clarke, 1997; Islam, 1995; Mitchell, Ingco, & Duncan, 1997; PinstrupAndersen, Pandya-Lorch, & Rosegrant, 1999). The green revolution provides some evidence to support a technology-led solution to the problem of feeding people (Trewavas, 1999). ...