REVIEW PAPER
Temperature-Induced Photo-Physiological
and Carbon Concentration Mechanism
Responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Department of Botany and Microbiology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar,
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, 522510, India
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Department of Microbiology, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110075, India
Submission date: 2024-09-19
Final revision date: 2025-02-14
Acceptance date: 2025-03-17
Online publication date: 2025-05-07
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Mallikarjuna Kokkanti
Department of Botany and Microbiology,, Acharya Nagarjuna University, , Nagarjuna Nagar, Andhra Pradesh , India, 522510, Guntur, India
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Heat-trapping of atmospheric high CO2 causes global warming, a censorious parameter that leaves
an antagonistic impression on all photosynthetic organisms’ physiological and productive activities.
To reduce these high CO2 levels, the Carbon Concentration Mechanism (CCM)-based microalgal CO2
mitigation was considered the most efficient non-negative impact method. The photosynthetic regulatory
mechanism of all photoautotrophs is the primary target for high temperatures, resulting in decreased
photosynthesis and productivity rate. Therefore, to counteract high-temperature stress on productivity,
it is necessary to understand the high-temperature acclimation responses of CCM and the photosynthetic
network in the cell at the molecular level. This will provide great insight into how photosynthetic light
and CCM genes network together toward high temperatures for stable photosynthesis. It also increases
the concern over developing thermotolerant strains. This review goes through some of the molecular
responses of the microalgae Chlamydomonas reinharditii, a plant model, to high temperatures.
It discusses how the organism senses heat, initiates protective mechanisms, and alters the expression
of genes related to carbon concentration mechanisms and photosynthesis to acquire thermotolerance.