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<p>There are many reasons why one would want to chose <i>Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii</i>:
 
<p>There are many reasons why one would want to chose <i>Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii</i>:
 
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<li>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular alga which is a relatively well established model organism and many techniques can be readily transferred to higher plants.</li>
 
<li>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular alga which is a relatively well established model organism and many techniques can be readily transferred to higher plants.</li>
 
<li>It is registered as safe to humans so there is a lot of interest in developing edible vaccines and other foodstuffs. </li>
 
<li>It is registered as safe to humans so there is a lot of interest in developing edible vaccines and other foodstuffs. </li>

Revision as of 15:27, 9 September 2016

Cambridge-JIC

Background

We intend to use Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii as a simple model to represent higher order systems.

There are many reasons why one would want to chose Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii:

  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular alga which is a relatively well established model organism and many techniques can be readily transferred to higher plants.
  • It is registered as safe to humans so there is a lot of interest in developing edible vaccines and other foodstuffs.
  • Fast growing
  • Very efficient homologous recombination in chloroplast