Coordinated carotenoid and lipid syntheses induced in parietochloris incisa (chlorophyta, trebouxiophyceae) mutant deficient in δ5 desaturase by nitrogen starvation and high light

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 763-772

  Solovchenko, Alexei ^a   Merzlyak, Mark N ^a   Khozin Goldberg, Inna ^b   Cohen, Zvi ^b   Boussiba, Sammy ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carotenogenesis; Carotenoids; Chlorophyll; Dihomo linolenic acid; N deficiency; Nondestructive assay; Parietochloris incisa; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYTA; PARIETOCHLORIS INCISA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77955242313     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00849.x     Document Type: Article

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