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Microalgae are promising biofuel producers due to their high ability to produce oil photosynthetically. The oleaginous green alga Chlamydomonas sp. JSC4 is a hopeful candidate that shows high growth potential together with high oil content through activation of the starch-to-lipid biosynthesis switching mechanism. However, oil accumulation of JSC4 is significantly decreased under light/dark conditions, which is inevitable in large-scale outdoor cultivation. To overcome this critical obstacle, this study aimed to obtain a mutant strain with high oil content under light/dark conditions. Selective breeding of oil-rich Chlamydomonas mutant was performed by combining heavy ion beam mutagenesis and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). JSC4 cells seeded on agar plates were exposed to 50 Gy of the carbon ion beams (12C5+, 220 MeV) accelerated by an AVF cyclotron at TIARA, QST. Mutant cells were cultured under light/dark conditions, followed by FACS-based screening for oil-rich cells using BODIPY fluorescence and chlorophyll fluorescence as the indicators of oil and cell size, respectively. Consequently, an oil-rich mutant strain KOR1 was obtained.
Overcoming Decreased Lipid Accumulation Under Light/Dark Conditions by Selective Breeding of Oil-Rich Chlamydomonas Mutants
