María Castillo, Govinda Guevara, Sara Baldanta, Patricia Suárez Rodríguez, Lucía Agudo, Juan Nogales, Asunción Díaz Carrasco, Fernando Arribas-Aguilar, Julián Pérez-Pérez, José Luis García, Beatriz Galán, Juana María Navarro Llorens
The filamentous cyanobacterium Limnospira platensis, formerly known as Arthrospira platensis or spirulina, is one of the most commercially important species of microalgae. Due to its high nutritional value, pharmacological and industrial applications it is extensively cultivated on a large commercial scale. Despite its widespread use, its precise manipulation is still under development due to the lack of effective genetic protocols. Genetic transformation of Limnospira has been attempted but the methods reported have not been generally reproducible in other laboratories...
December 9, 2023: Microbiological Research