Microalgae for the production of plant specialized metabolites of interest

藻类C是一家专门从事藻类生物质生产的公司。它能够为各种部门(水产养殖、营养食品、化妆品和生物燃料)现场生产藻类。到目前为止，许多燃料、药品和化妆品都是从植物中提取的。这些有价值的植物天然产物(PNPs)通常在植物中产量较低，提取方法可能需要很长时间和昂贵的费用。因此，新陈代谢工程对开发生产特定PNPs的微生物平台非常感兴趣。微藻是众所周知的植物生物学和基因工程系统，是构建复杂植物途径的有趣和合适的宿主。藻类C希望将代谢工程研究转化为工业过程。该项目旨在优化微藻平台，以生产有价值的PNPs。这些项目的动机是消费者对环境友好、价格较低、具有与PNPs产生的产品相似或更好的特性的产品的需求。

Algae-C is a company specialized in algal biomass production. It enables on-site production of algae for a widevariety of sectors (aquaculture, nutraceutical, cosmetic and biofuel). To date, many fuels, pharmaceuticals andcosmetic products are extracted from plants. These valuable plant natural products (PNPs) are often producedin low quantities in plants and extraction methods can be long and expensive. Thus, there is much interest inmetabolic engineering for developing microbial platforms to produce specific PNPs. Microalgae arewell-known systems for plant biology and genetic engineering and are interesting and suitable hosts for thereconstitution of complex plant pathways. Algae-C wishes to translate metabolic engineering research intoindustrial processes. This project aims to optimized microalgae platforms for the production of valuable PNPs.These ventures are motivated by consumer demand for products that are environmentally friendly, lessexpensive, and possess properties similar or superior with those generated by PNPs.