Pavel Přibyl

TL;DR: It is demonstrated the production of lipids through large-scale cultivation of C. vulgaris in a thin layer photobioreactor, even under suboptimal conditions, offering a possible alternative to the use of higher plant oils.

TL;DR: After transfer of cells into replenished mineral medium, growth, reproductive processes and chlorophyll content recovered within 2 days, while the content of both starch and lipids decreased markedly to 3 or less % of DW; this suggested that they were being used as a source of energy and carbon.

TL;DR: The strategy for lipid overproduction consists of the fast growth of P. kessleri culture grown in the complete medium followed by the dilution of nutrient medium to stop growth and cell division by limitation of all elements, leading to induction of lipid production and accumulation up to 60% DW.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the Vitrella plastids emerged from a deep ochrophyte lineage rather than being derived vertically from a hypothetical plastid-bearing common ancestor of alveolates and stramenopiles, and may have been acquired by an endosymbiosis of an early ochROphyte.

TL;DR: The formation of lipid bodies in the microalga Chlorella vulgaris CCALA 256 under lipid-induction conditions in autotrophically grown cultures was investigated and it was found that cell division ceased after depletion of nitrates from the growth medium within the first days of cultivation.