{"title":"Genetic Switch May Help Marine Microalgae Respond to Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels","description":"<p>Marine microalgae, including diatoms, are responsible for converting CO2 into oxygen and biologically usable carbon through photosynthesis. How these organisms will respond over the short and long term to rising CO2 is unknown. Growth experiments and transcriptomic analyses performed by UW and ISB researchers showed that the model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana respond to increasing CO2 by down-regulating gene clusters involved in carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) and photorespiration.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/www.systemsbiology.org\/research\/genetic-switch-may-help-marine-microalgae-respond-to-higher-co2-levels\/"}