One potentially successful
strategy for improving C. reinhardtii growth rates involves reduction
of light stress through reduction of chlorophyll antennae size, as
light-harvesting-complex mutants for the LHCI and LHCII genes that
possess fewer or smaller chlorophyll antennae than wild type strains
exhibit increased biomass productivity under controlled high light conditions
[10–16], though it is not clear if these mutants grow faster under
standard light conditions or in outdoor ponds [3,17]