Progress in the photobiological hydrogen production with Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cultures in laboratory and outdoor photobioreactors

One friendly way of producing energy is photobiological H2 production using the the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A number of D1 protein mutant has been screened for its H2 evolution capacity. Mutants carry a double amino acidic substitution or a deletion in the loop connecting helices D and E of D1 protein. Some fo them have proved to be 5 times more productive as compared to the cc124 strain, the strain commonly utilized for hydrogen experiments worldwide.