Regulation of the pigment optical density of an algal cell: filling the gap between photosynthetic productivity in the laboratory and in mass culture.

Abstract excerpt

An increasing number of investors is looking at algae as a viable source of biofuels, beside cultivation for human/animal feeding or to extract high-value chemicals and pharmaceuticals. However, present biomass productivities are far below theoretical estimations implying that a large part of the available photosynthetically active radiation is not used in photosynthesis. Light utilisation inefficiency and rapid...

Topics

• Bacteriological Techniques
• Biofuels
• Biomass
• Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• Computer Simulation
• Light
• Mutation
• Photobioreactors
• Photosynthesis
• Pigments, Biological
• Scattering, Radiation
• Thermodynamics