Acidophilic green alga Pseudochlorella sp. YKT1 accumulates high amount of lipid droplets under a nitrogen-depleted condition at a low-pH

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Hirooka, Shunsuke ^a,b   Higuchi, Sumio ^c   Uzuka, Akihiro ^a,d   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^e   Miyagishima, Shin Ya ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Graduate University for Advanced Studies ^*  (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; SULFURIC ACID; BIOFUEL; NITROGEN;

ACIDOPHILE; ALGAL CELL; ALGAL GROWTH; ALGAL ISOLATION; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CHLORELLA; DEPLETION; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENETIC STRAIN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; JAPAN; LIPID STORAGE; MICROALGA; MINING; NITROGEN DEFICIENCY; NITROGEN DEPLETION; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOCHLORELLA; PSEUDOCHLORELLA PRINGSHEIMII; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; VEGETATIVE STAGE; WATER TEMPERATURE; CHLOROPLAST; GREEN ALGA; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM;

CHLOROPHYTA; PSEUDOCHLORELLA;

BIOFUELS; CHLOROPHYTA; CHLOROPLASTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; JAPAN; LIPID DROPLETS; LIPID METABOLISM; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84907149940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107702     Document Type: Article

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