Diatom molecular research comes of age: model species for studying phytoplankton biology and diversity

A Falciatore, M Jaubert, JP Bouly, B Bailleul… - The Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Diatoms are the world's most diverse group of algae, comprising at least 100,000 species.
Contributing~ 20% of annual global carbon fixation, they underpin major aquatic food webs …

Structural Diversity in Eukaryotic Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

M Iwai, D Patel-Tupper, KK Niyogi - Annual Review of Plant …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthesis has been using energy from sunlight to assimilate atmospheric CO2 for at
least 3.5 billion years. Through evolution and natural selection, photosynthetic organisms …

Lighting the way: compelling open questions in photosynthesis research

NA Eckardt, Y Allahverdiyeva, CE Alvarez… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthesis—the conversion of energy from sunlight into chemical energy—is essential
for life on Earth. Yet there is much we do not understand about photosynthetic energy …

One-step generation of multiple gene knock-outs in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum by DNA-free genome editing

M Serif, G Dubois, AL Finoux, MA Teste, D Jallet… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recently developed transgenic techniques to explore and exploit the metabolic potential of
microalgae present several drawbacks associated with the delivery of exogenous DNA into …

Lhcx proteins provide photoprotection via thermal dissipation of absorbed light in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

JM Buck, J Sherman, CR Bártulos, M Serif… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Diatoms possess an impressive capacity for rapidly inducible thermal dissipation of excess
absorbed energy (qE), provided by the xanthophyll diatoxanthin and Lhcx proteins. By …

A rapid aureochrome opto-switch enables diatom acclimation to dynamic light

H Zhang, X **ong, K Guo, M Zheng, T Cao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Diatoms often outnumber other eukaryotic algae in the oceans, especially in coastal
environments characterized by frequent fluctuations in light intensity. The identities and …

Genetic and metabolic engineering in diatoms

W Huang, F Daboussi - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Diatoms have attracted considerable attention due to their success in diverse environmental
conditions, which probably is a consequence of their complex origins. Studies of their …

Lipid dependence of xanthophyll cycling in higher plants and algae

R Goss, D Latowski - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The xanthophyll cycles of higher plants and algae represent an important photoprotection
mechanism. Two main xanthophyll cycles are known, the violaxanthin cycle of higher plants …

[HTML][HTML] Light harvesting complexes in chlorophyll c-containing algae

C Büchel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2020 - Elsevier
Besides the so-called 'green lineage'of eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms that include
vascular plants, a huge variety of different algal groups exist that also harvest light by means …

The diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum adjusts nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching capacity in response to dynamic light via fine‐tuned Lhcx and xanthophyll …

B Lepetit, G Gélin, M Lepetit, S Sturm… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Diatoms contain a highly flexible capacity to dissipate excessively absorbed light by
nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ) based on the light‐induced conversion of …