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Microalgae for high-value compounds and biofuels production: a review with focus on cultivation under stress conditions.

Giorgos Markou, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2013 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 8, pp 1532-1542
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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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This article is published in Biotechnology Advances.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 657 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biofuel & Biomass.

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Carotenoids from microalgae: A review of recent developments.

TL;DR: This review presents the recent biotechnological developments in microalgal carotenoid production including cultivation, harvesting, extraction, and purification with a specific focus on downstream processing.
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Extraction and purification of high-value metabolites from microalgae: essential lipids, astaxanthin and phycobiliproteins

TL;DR: The extraction and purification methods for polyunsaturated fatty acids, astaxanthin, phycoerythrin and phycocyanin are described and the effect that environmental growth conditions have in the production of these metabolites is described.
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A Review on the Assessment of Stress Conditions for Simultaneous Production of Microalgal Lipids and Carotenoids

TL;DR: The review considers the potential of microalgae to produce a range of products and indicates future directions for developing suitable criteria for choosing novel isolates through bioprospecting large gene pool of microalga obtained from various habitats and climatic conditions.
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Commercial astaxanthin production derived by green alga Haematococcus pluvialis: A microalgae process model and a techno-economic assessment all through production line

TL;DR: Astaxanthin is a member of the xanthophyll family of carotenoids and constitutes the highest value product derived by microalgae as mentioned in this paper, and is extracted from the freshwater green microalgal strain Haematococcus pluvialis.
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Production, extraction and characterization of microalgal and cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to do the state of the art of processes for exopolysaccharide production and extraction from microalgal biomass and the analytical strategies for their characterization.
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Commercial applications of microalgae

TL;DR: The first use of microalgae by humans dates back 2000 years to the Chinese, who used Nostoc to survive during famine, while future research should focus on the improvement of production systems and the genetic modification of strains.
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Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances

TL;DR: A brief summary of the current knowledge on oleaginous algae and their fatty acid and TAG biosynthesis, algal model systems and genomic approaches to a better understanding of TAG production, and a historical perspective and path forward for microalgae-based biofuel research and commercialization are provided.
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Valuable products from biotechnology of microalgae.

TL;DR: The biotechnology of microalgae has gained considerable importance in recent decades and this group of organisms represents one of the most promising sources for new products and applications.
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Techniques for extraction of bioactive compounds from plant materials: A review

TL;DR: This review is aimed to discuss different extraction techniques along with their basic mechanism for extracting bioactive compounds from medicinal plants.
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