The global market demand for natural astaxanthin (AXT) is growing rapidly owing to its
potential human health benefits and diverse industry applications, driven by its safety …

The purpose of this study was to express an antimicrobial peptide in the chloroplast to
further develop the plastid engineering of H. pluvialis. Homologous targeting of the 16S …

Background The plastid genomes of the green algal order Chlamydomonadales tend to
expand their non-coding regions, but this phenomenon is poorly understood. Here we shed …

Within the siphonous green algal order Bryopsidales, the size and gene arrangement of
chloroplast genomes has been examined extensively, while mitochondrial genomes have …

Proliferation of selfish genetic elements has led to significant genome size expansion in
plastid and mitochondrial genomes of various eukaryotic lineages. Within the red algae …

Snow algae are a diverse group of extremophilic microeukaryotes found on melting polar
and alpine snowfields. They play an important role in the microbial ecology of the …

Chloroplasts are photosynthetic organelles in algal and plant cells that contain their own
genome. Chloroplast genomes are commonly used in evolutionary studies and taxonomic …

A major finding in organelle biology over the past decade is that land plant mitochondrial
genomes, which are the largest among eukaryotes, can have a “Jekyll and Hyde” mutational …

The green alga Haematococcus lacustris (formerly Haematococcus pluvialis) is a primary
source of astaxanthin, a ketocarotenoid with high antioxidant activity and several industrial …

The haptophyte Phaeocystis globosa is a well-known species for its pivotal role in global
carbon and sulfur cycles and for its capability of forming harmful algal blooms (HABs) with …