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Bioscience and Biotechnology Institute of Aix-Marseille
Energies | Renewable energies | Bioenergy | Biofuel | Biohydrogen | Microalgae | Photosynthesis
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To select the strains of interest, the laboratory has developed two screening methods. The first one discriminates on the lipid composition, the second on the photosynthetic activity of the organism.
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By GC-FID or GC-M
Publication of the screening method :
Cagnon C, Mirabella B, Nguyen HM, Beyly-Adriano A, Bouvet S, Cuiné S, Beisson F, Peltier G, Li-Beisson Y. A genetic screen to isolate oil mutants in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii . Biotechnol. Biofuels 6, 178
A system allowing to follow the chlorophyll fluorescence in time, on plates of culture, was finalized with the cooperation of Bernard Genty and Illia Reiters (LEMP-CEA Cadarache).This device based on the acquisition by a fluorescent camera of the signal of fluorescence and an excitement by a crown of diodes allowed to screen a bank of more than 3000 mutants of Chlamydomonas to isolate photosynthesis mutants (Ghysel and al .).
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