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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020

Stresses as First-Line Tools for Enhancing Lipid and Carotenoid Production in Microalgae.

Tian-Qiong Shi, Ling-Ru Wang, Zi-Xu Zhang, Xiao-Man Sun, He Huang

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 153 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tian-Qiong ShiSchool of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Ling-Ru WangSchool of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Zi-Xu ZhangSchool of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Xiao-Man SunSchool of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
He HuangSchool of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Nanjing Normal University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microalgae can produce high-value-added products such as lipids and carotenoids using light or sugars, and their biosynthesis mechanism can be triggered by various stress conditions. Under nutrient deprivation or environmental stresses, microalgal cells accumulate lipids as an energy-rich carbon storage battery and generate additional amounts of carotenoids to alleviate the oxidative damage induced by stress conditions. Though stressful conditions are unfavorable for biomass accumulation and can induce oxidative damage, stress-based strategies are widely used in this field due to their effectiveness and economy. For the overproduction of different target products, it is required and meaningful to deeply understand the effects and mechanisms of various stress conditions so as to provide guidance on choosing the appropriate stress conditions. Moreover, the underlying molecular mechanisms under stress conditions can be clarified by omics technologies, which exhibit enormous potential in guiding rational genetic engineering for improving lipid and carotenoid biosynthesis.

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carotenoidslipidsmicroalgaeomics technologiesstresses

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PMID32850686
PMCPMC7396513
OpenAlexW3028285691

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