Andrew P. Dean

TL;DR: The current research on this topic is reviewed and the potential benefits and limitations of using wastewaters as resources for cost-effective microalgal biofuel production are discussed.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate rapid metabolic responses of C. reinhardtii and S. subspicatus to changing nutrient availability, and indicate the efficiency of FTIR as a reliable method for high-throughput determination of lipid induction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the idea that silica can reduce digestibility by preventing the mechanical breakdown of chlorenchyma cells, and found that high-silica grasses released less chlorophyll after grinding and retained more after passing through the gut of locusts.

TL;DR: Acclimation to wastewater tolerance was correlated with higher accumulation of carotenoid pigments and increased ascorbate peroxidase activity, and metabolic fingerprinting of the acclimated and non-acclimated microalgae using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was able to differentiate strains on the basis of metabolic responses to the stress.

TL;DR: Despite CrMTP4 gene over-expression being a successful strategy to enhance the Cd bioremediation potential of a metal-sensitive microalga, a single gene manipulation cannot compete with naturally adapted strain mechanisms that are likely to be multigenic and due in part to oxidative stress tolerance.