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Coordinator |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Italy [IT] |
Project website | https://www.solelab.org/solenalgae |
Total cost | 1˙441˙875 € |
EC max contribution | 1˙441˙875 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
Starting year | 2016 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-03-01 to 2021-02-28 |
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1 | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA | IT (VERONA) | coordinator | 1˙341˙875.00 |
2 | POLITECNICO DI MILANO | IT (MILANO) | participant | 100˙000.00 |
Solar Energy is the most abundant renewable energy source available for our Planet. Light energy conversion into chemical energy by photosynthetic organisms is indeed the main conversion energy step, which originated high energy containing fossil deposits, now being depleted. By the way, plant or algae biomass may still be used to produce biofuels, as bio-ethanol, bio-diesel and bio-hydrogen. Microalgae exploitation for biofuels production have the considerable advantages of being sustainable and not in competition with food production, since not-arable lands, waste water and industrial gasses can be used for algae cultivation. Considering that only 45% of the sunlight covers the range of wavelengths that can be absorbed and used for photosynthesis, the maximum photosynthetic efficiency achievable in microalgae is 10%. On these bases, a photobioreactor carrying 600 l/m-2 would produce 294 Tons/ha/year of biomass of which 30% to 80%, depending on strain and growth conditions, being oil. However this potential has not been exploited yet, since biomass and biofuels yield on industrial scale obtained up to now were relatively low and with high costs of production. The main limitation encountered for sustained biomass production in microalgae by sunlight conversion is low light use efficiency, reduced from the theoretical value of 10% to 1-3%. This low light use efficiency is mainly due to a combined effect of reduced light penetration to deeper layers in highly pigmented cultures, where light available is almost completely absorbed by the outer layers, and an extremely high (up to 80%) thermal dissipation of the light absorbed. This project aims to investigate the molecular basis for efficient light energy conversion into chemical energy, in order to significantly increase the biomass production in microalgae combining a solid investigation of the principles of light energy conversion with biotechnological engineering of algal strains.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2019 |
Laura Girolomoni, Stefano Cazzaniga, Alberta Pinnola, Federico Perozeni, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi LHCSR3 is a nonphotochemical quencher of both photosystems in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii published pages: 4212-4217, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1809812116 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116/10 | 2019-05-22 |
2016 |
Nicholas H. C. Lewis, Natalie L. Gruenke, Thomas A. A. Oliver, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi, Graham R. Fleming Observation of Electronic Excitation Transfer Through Light Harvesting Complex II Using Two-Dimensional Electronic–Vibrational Spectroscopy published pages: 4197-4206, ISSN: 1948-7185, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02280 |
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7/20 | 2019-05-28 |
2018 |
Perozeni F, Stella GR, Ballottari M LHCSR Expression under HSP70/RBCS2 Promoter as a Strategy to Increase Productivity in Microalgae published pages: 155, ISSN: 1422-0067, DOI: 10.3390/ijms19010155 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19/1 | 2019-05-28 |
2018 |
M. Cecchin, S. Benfatto, F. Griggio, A. Mori, S. Cazzaniga, N. Vitulo, M. Delledonne, M. Ballottari Molecular basis of autotrophic vs mixotrophic growth in Chlorella sorokiniana published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24979-8 |
Scientific Reports 8/1 | 2019-05-28 |
2018 |
Antonio Perri, John H. Gaida, Andrea Farina, Fabrizio Preda, Daniele Viola, Matteo Ballottari, Jürgen Hauer, Sandro De Silvestri, Cosimo D’Andrea, Giulio Cerullo, Dario Polli Time- and frequency-resolved fluorescence with a single TCSPC detector via a Fourier-transform approach published pages: 2270, ISSN: 1094-4087, DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.002270 |
Optics Express 26/3 | 2019-05-28 |
2017 |
Francesco Mascia, Laura Girolomoni, Marcelo J. P. Alcocer, Ilaria Bargigia, Federico Perozeni, Stefano Cazzaniga, Giulio Cerullo, Cosimo D’Andrea, Matteo Ballottari Functional analysis of photosynthetic pigment binding complexes in the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis reveals distribution of astaxanthin in Photosystems published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16641-6 |
Scientific Reports 7/1 | 2019-05-28 |
2017 |
Andreas Uhmeyer, Michela Cecchin, Matteo Ballottari, Lutz Wobbe Impaired Mitochondrial Transcription Termination Disrupts the Stromal Redox Poise in Chlamydomonas published pages: 1399-1419, ISSN: 0032-0889, DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00946 |
Plant Physiology 174/3 | 2019-06-19 |
2017 |
Laura Girolomoni, Paola Ferrante, Silvia Berteotti, Giovanni Giuliano, Roberto Bassi, Matteo Ballottari The function of LHCBM4/6/8 antenna proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii published pages: erw462, ISSN: 0022-0957, DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw462 |
Journal of Experimental Botany 01/12/2016 | 2019-06-19 |
2016 |
Luca Zuliani, Nicola Frison, Aleksandra Jelic, Francesco Fatone, David Bolzonella, Matteo Ballottari Microalgae Cultivation on Anaerobic Digestate of Municipal Wastewater, Sewage Sludge and Agro-Waste published pages: 1692, ISSN: 1422-0067, DOI: 10.3390/ijms17101692 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 17/10 | 2019-06-19 |
2017 |
Alberta Pinnola, Matteo Ballottari, Ilaria Bargigia, Marcelo Alcocer, Cosimo D’Andrea, Giulio Cerullo, Roberto Bassi Functional modulation of LHCSR1 protein from Physcomitrella patens by zeaxanthin binding and low pH published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11101-7 |
Scientific Reports 7/1 | 2019-06-19 |
2016 |
Alberta Pinnola, Hristina Staleva-Musto, Stefano Capaldi, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi, Tomáš PolÃvka Electron transfer between carotenoid and chlorophyll contributes to quenching in the LHCSR1 protein from Physcomitrella patens published pages: 1870-1878, ISSN: 0005-2728, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.09.001 |
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1857/12 | 2019-06-19 |
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