RNAi Knock-Down of LHCBM1, 2 and 3 Increases Photosynthetic H2 Production Efficiency of the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Oey, Melanie ^a   Ross, Ian L ^a   Stephens, Evan ^a   Steinbeck, Janina ^b   Wolf, Juliane ^a   Radzun, Khairul Adzfa ^a,e   Kügler, Johannes ^d   Ringsmuth, Andrew K ^a   Kruse, Olaf ^c   Hankamer, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCING HYDROGENASE; HYDROGENASE; PROTEIN LHCBM1; PROTEIN LHCBM2; PROTEIN LHCBM3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS CONVERSION; CELL DENSITY; CELL MUTANT; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE SILENCING; HEAT LOSS; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOLAR ENERGY; UPREGULATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; HYDROGEN; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 84876175836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061375     Document Type: Article

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