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Genetic Optimization for Increasing Hydrogen Production in Microalgae

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Hydrogen; microalgae; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; D1 protein; PSII; Fluorescence yield; Hydrogenase; Anaerobiosis

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In recent years, the increasing depletion of fossil resources has increased the necessity to search for alternative sources of energy. What seems imperative is that all efforts have to be addressed to improve the utilization of renewable source of energy. It is well known that under particular conditions, microalgae are capable to produce hydrogen as almost pure biogas. In this respect, the goal would be to use the sole solar light energy and water, a clean and green sustainable source of energy. However, this process has some limitation. The main bottleneck is represented by the reduced photosynthetic efficiency of photosynthetic cells to convert solar light energy into chemical energy (or hydrogen). Many studies have been carried out all over the years in order to solve this problem, but at the moment, only a small improvement has been...

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Faraloni, C., Torzillo, G. (2018). Genetic Optimization for Increasing Hydrogen Production in Microalgae. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_950-1

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