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Ibb institute for biotechnology and bioengineering, centre mechanics of. Department of pharmaceutical analysis, vikas college of pharmaceutical sciences, jawaharlal nehru technological university, suryapet, telangana, india. Despite the highly regulated array of nitrogen transporters, providing a nitrogen source with a balanced degree of reduction minimizes ph fluctuations. Biotechnology and applied phycology, journal of applied phycology on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Of the several books published on the uses of microalgae during the past three decades, the most comprehensive was the handbook of microalgal mass cultures richmond 1986, so workers. Dear colleagues, there is a growing interest in the opportunities that microalgae and cyanobacteria offer in industrial biotechnology as lightdriven platforms for the production of valuable bioproducts. Among them, the green microalga euglena is a very promising food and nutritional supplements, providing high valueadded polyunsaturated fatty acids, paramylon and proteins. Auto suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Thein, min aung, toe pyone lwin, khin khaing, may yu pulz, otto. Second edition, abstract algae are some of the fastest growing organisms in the world, with up to 90% of their weight made up from carbohydrate, protein and oil.
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Microalgae mass cultures combine attributes of both agriculture plant photosynthesis and industrial fermentations suspended culture growth. There are various methods of inducing mixing in microalgal cultures. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Our discussions will focus on green microalgae chlorophyta and diatoms, but will also include examples using cyanobacteria, as many microsystems that can be applied to cyanobacteria can be very well directly applied to green microalgae as well.
Gerken received his phd from arizona state university in microbiology in 2009 and completed post doctoral fellowships at the national renewable energy laboratory in. Products of microalgae cultured in openpondscould only be marketed as valueadded health food supplements, specialityfeed and reagents for research. Mullerfeuga and others published handbook of microalgal culture. Mixing is of paramount importance to microalgal cultures. Microbial fermentations provide greatly superior volumetric productivities 100 times higher or more and cell concentrations over 10fold than. Edited by amos richmond and qiang hu, each with a huge wealth of experience in microalgae, its culture, and biotechnology, and drawing together contributions from experts around the globe, this thorough and comprehensive new edition is an essential purchase for all those involved with microalgae, their culture, processing and use. Different culture conditions could affect the chemical composition and food quality of microalgal cells. It furthermore includes a survey of the stateoftheart in process engineering of algae cultivation starting with mass production in open ponds and leading you to advanced.
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