Understanding algae responses to stress can help to improve our knowledge about algae adaptation strategies which can be used to engineer tolerant strains. Also, it can be used to manipulate culturing condition to yield the higher amount of secondary metabolites like carotenoid.
In most of the articles that I am reading it is not mentioned why is important understanding adaptation mechanisms. Are there any other applications other than what I stated?
Hi dear Manu Kumar,
Thanks for your information, I would like to know what are the applications of studying stress mechanisms other than crop improvment by transformation.
Algae is the major player of the third generation of biofuel. Researchers have been studying algae (including stress conditions) or engineering them for producing more lipids (or TAG) which can be made into biofuel.
This is an example:
Nitrogen deficiency (stress) promotes lipid formation in many microalgae. However, too much nitrogen stress, microalgae's growth will be affected. So, it is important for research to study how to make microalgae produce the maximum lipid by nitrogen stress but won't influence their growth.
See the attached paper:
"Understanding precision nitrogen stress to optimize the growth and lipid content tradeoff in oleaginous green microalgae "
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