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Heterotrophic cultures of microalgae: Metabolism and potential products
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This review analyzes the current state of a specific niche of microalgae cultivation; heterotrophic growth in the dark supported by a carbon source replacing the traditional support of light energy.About:
This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 1370 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heterotrophic Processes.read more
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The promising future of microalgae: current status, challenges, and optimization of a sustainable and renewable industry for biofuels, feed, and other products
TL;DR: The present review describes the advantages of microalgae for the production of biofuels and various bioactive compounds and discusses culturing parameters.
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Microalgae biofuels: A critical review of issues, problems and the way forward
Man Kee Lam,Keat Teong Lee +1 more
TL;DR: The practical problems that are facing the microalgae biofuel industry will be depicted, covering upstream to downstream activities by accessing the latest research reports and critical data analysis and several interlink solutions to the problems will be suggested with the purpose to revolutionize the entire microAlgae Biofuel industry towards long-term sustainability.
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Microalgae for high-value compounds and biofuels production: a review with focus on cultivation under stress conditions.
Giorgos Markou,Elias Nerantzis +1 more
TL;DR: This paper aims to provide a review on the available literature about the cultivation of microalgae for the accumulation of high-value compounds along with lipids or carbohydrates focusing on stress cultivation conditions.
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Microalgal carbohydrates: an overview of the factors influencing carbohydrates production, and of main bioconversion technologies for production of biofuels.
TL;DR: This paper attempts to give a general overview of techniques that can be used for increasing the microalgal biomass carbohydrate content, and biomass conversion technologies, related to the conversion of carbohydrates into biofuels are discussed.
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Microalgal and cyanobacterial cultivation: the supply of nutrients.
TL;DR: The main focus is on the three most significant nutrients, i.e. carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and their uptake by microalgae and cyanobacteria; however other nutrients are also reviewed.
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The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions
Sabeeha S. Merchant,Simon E. Prochnik,Olivier Vallon,Elizabeth H. Harris,Steven J. Karpowicz,George B. Witman,Astrid Terry,Asaf Salamov,Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin,Laurence Maréchal-Drouard,Wallace F. Marshall,Liang-Hu Qu,David R. Nelson,Anton A. Sanderfoot,Martin H. Spalding,Vladimir V. Kapitonov,Qinghu Ren,Patrick J. Ferris,Erika Lindquist,Harris Shapiro,Susan Lucas,Jane Grimwood,Jeremy Schmutz,Pierre Cardol,Pierre Cardol,Heriberto Cerutti,Guillaume Chanfreau,Chun-Long Chen,Valérie Cognat,Martin T. Croft,Rachel M. Dent,Susan K. Dutcher,Emilio Fernández,Hideya Fukuzawa,David González-Ballester,Diego González-Halphen,Armin Hallmann,Marc Hanikenne,Michael Hippler,William Inwood,Kamel Jabbari,Ming Kalanon,Richard Kuras,Paul A. Lefebvre,Stéphane D. Lemaire,Alexey V. Lobanov,Martin Lohr,Andrea L Manuell,Iris Meier,Laurens Mets,Maria Mittag,Telsa M. Mittelmeier,James V. Moroney,Jeffrey L. Moseley,Carolyn A. Napoli,Aurora M. Nedelcu,Krishna K. Niyogi,Sergey V. Novoselov,Ian T. Paulsen,Greg Pazour,Saul Purton,Jean-Philippe Ral,Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón,Wayne R. Riekhof,Linda A. Rymarquis,Michael Schroda,David B. Stern,James G. Umen,Robert D. Willows,Nedra F. Wilson,Sara L. Zimmer,Jens Allmer,Janneke Balk,Katerina Bisova,Chong-Jian Chen,Marek Eliáš,Karla C Gendler,Charles R. Hauser,Mary Rose Lamb,Heidi K. Ledford,Joanne C. Long,Jun Minagawa,M. Dudley Page,Junmin Pan,Wirulda Pootakham,Sanja Roje,Annkatrin Rose,Eric Stahlberg,Aimee M. Terauchi,Pinfen Yang,Steven G. Ball,Chris Bowler,Carol L. Dieckmann,Vadim N. Gladyshev,Pamela J. Green,Richard A. Jorgensen,Stephen P. Mayfield,Bernd Mueller-Roeber,Sathish Rajamani,Richard T. Sayre,Peter Brokstein,Inna Dubchak,David Goodstein,Leila Hornick,Y. Wayne Huang,Jinal Jhaveri,Yigong Luo,Diego Martinez,Wing Chi Abby Ngau,Bobby Otillar,Alexander Poliakov,Aaron Porter,Lukasz Szajkowski,Gregory Werner,Kemin Zhou,Igor V. Grigoriev,Daniel S. Rokhsar,Daniel S. Rokhsar,Arthur R. Grossman +118 more
TL;DR: Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance the understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella.