Photosynthetic adaptation to polar life: Energy balance, photoprotection and genetic redundancy

NPA Hüner, DR Smith, M Cvetkovska, X Zhang… - Journal of Plant …, 2022 - Elsevier
The persistent low temperature that characterize polar habitats combined with the
requirement for light for all photoautotrophs creates a conundrum. The absorption of too …

Chlamydomonas Responses to Salinity Stress and Possible Biotechnological Exploitation

E Bazzani, C Lauritano, O Mangoni, F Bolinesi… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Salinity is among the main drivers affecting growth and distribution of photosynthetic
organisms as Chlamydomonas spp. These species can live in multiple environments …

Engineered hypermutation adapts cyanobacterial photosynthesis to combined high light and high temperature stress

H Sun, G Luan, Y Ma, W Lou, R Chen, D Feng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photosynthesis can be impaired by combined high light and high temperature (HLHT)
stress. Obtaining HLHT tolerant photoautotrophs is laborious and time-consuming, and in …

Extracellular polymeric substances in psychrophilic cyanobacteria: A potential bioflocculant and carbon sink to mitigate cold stress

T Sheikh, B Hamid, Z Baba, S Iqbal, A Yatoo… - Biocatalysis and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria dominate microbiota in ice-based habitats and contend with extreme
fluctuation in temperature and lack of liquid water, which poses severe limitations (freezing …

Systems-wide analysis revealed shared and unique responses to moderate and acute high temperatures in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

N Zhang, EM Mattoon, W McHargue, B Venn… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Different intensities of high temperatures affect the growth of photosynthetic cells in nature.
To elucidate the underlying mechanisms, we cultivated the unicellular green alga …

Draft genome sequence of the Antarctic green alga Chlamydomonas sp. UWO241

X Zhang, M Cvetkovska, R Morgan-Kiss, NPA Hüner… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Antarctica is home to an assortment of psychrophilic algae, which have evolved various
survival strategies for co** with their frigid environments. Here, we explore Antarctic …

Cyclic electron flow (CEF) and ascorbate pathway activity provide constitutive photoprotection for the photopsychrophile, Chlamydomonas sp. UWO 241 (renamed …

S Stahl-Rommel, I Kalra, S D'Silva, MM Hahn… - Photosynthesis …, 2022 - Springer
Under environmental stress, plants and algae employ a variety of strategies to protect the
photosynthetic apparatus and maintain photostasis. To date, most studies on stress …

Temperature stress in psychrophilic green microalgae: Minireview

M Cvetkovska, G Vakulenko, DR Smith… - Physiologia …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthetic algae are the main primary producers in polar regions, form the basis of
polar food webs, and are responsible for a significant portion of global carbon fixation. Many …

Glycerol Is an Osmoprotectant in Two Antarctic Chlamydomonas Species From an Ice-Covered Saline Lake and Is Synthesized by an Unusual Bidomain Enzyme

JA Raymond, R Morgan-Kiss… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Glycerol, a compatible solute, has previously been found to act as an osmoprotectant in
some marine Chlamydomonas species and several species of Dunaliella from hypersaline …

Proteomic analysis of MsFtsH8 overexpression reveals enhanced salt stress response in alfalfa through PSII stability and antioxidant capacity improvement

X Li, K Niu, X Zeng, X Zhu, Q Yu, J Kang, Q Yang… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The FtsH (Filamentous temperature sensitive H) proteases, known for their crucial
roles in protein quality control and maintaining the integrity of photosynthetic machinery …