Domestication of the green alga Chlorella sorokiniana: reduction of antenna size improves light-use efficiency in a photobioreactor

Table 1 Pigment content, maximum quantum yield of PSII, and functional antenna size of wild-type and mutants TAM-2 and TAM-4

Genotype	Chl/cell (pg)	Chla/b	Chl/Car	F_v/F_m	PSII antenna size (T_2/3^-1 • 10³, ms-¹)	PSI antenna size (T_1/2, ms)
WT	0.49 ± 0.07^a	2.62 ± 0.02^a	3.43 ± 0.02^a	0.69 ± 0.02^a	18.2 ± 1.4^a	134.3 ± 26.8^a
TAM-2	0.30 ± 0.02^b	3.36 ± 0.03^b	3.07 ± 0.05^b	0.70 ± 0.01^a	10.5 ± 0.5^b	115.4 ± 23.5^a
TAM-4	0.34 ± 0.05^b	3.41 ± 0.03^b	3.18 ± 0.03^b	0.69 ± 0.03^a	9.4 ± 0.5^b	122.7 ± 14.4^a

Data are expressed as mean ± SD. Significantly different values (ANOVA, P <0.05) with respect to the wild-type (WT), within the same column, are marked with different letters.

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