Patent ID: 8865451

Claim:
A transgenic alga comprising a plant-derived or algal-derived glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) transgene and a glutamine synthetase (GS) transgene, wherein each of said GPT transgene and said GS transgene is operably linked to a promoter, wherein the GPT transgene encodes a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 9, SEQ ID NO: 15, SEQ ID NO: 19, SEQ ID NO: 21, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO: 30, SEQ ID NO:31, SEQ ID NO: 32, SEQ ID NO: 33, SEQ ID NO: 34, SEQ ID NO: 36, SEQ ID NO: 44, SEQ ID NO: 47, and 48.