The Carbon Concentrating Mechanism (CCM) of diatoms

• Main Author: Tan, Dexter Jun Xiang
• Other Authors: Oliver Martin Mueller-Cajar
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63622
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Diatoms are an extremely successful major group of marine microalgae being responsible for about 20% of global primary production and thus global CO2-fixation, slowing down the intensification of climate-change. Despite their ecological significance, knowledge about these highly productive organisms...