Cultivation of Osmundea pinnatifida (Hudson) Stackhouse in flasks and/or tanks has yet to be developed beyond the lab scale. However, establishment a methodology for supply this red seaweed great potential, considering that it can exploited either as food or source biologically active compounds with potential nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. This study investigates possi...

Abstract Oil production was tested with Neochloris oleoabundans in a 6 m 3 , horizontal soft sleeve tubular reactor from 22 October to 7 November Matalascañas, southern Spain. Biomass productivity during the nitrogen replete phase 7.4 g dw ?2 day ?1 . Maximum lipid content biomass 39% and average depletion 2.0 Nitrogen of cultures carried out order enhance fatty acid formation, using inverse qu...

The extent of biological CO2 fixation was evaluated for outdoor cultures of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047. Culture conditions were optimized indoors in bubble-column photochemostats operating in continuous mode, subjected to irradiance cycles mimicking the light regime outdoors. Highest values achieved for CO2 fixation rate and biomass productivity were 1 and 0.6 g L(-1) day(-1), r...

One goal of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for cyanobacteria and microalgae is to engineer strains that can optimally produce biofuels and commodity chemicals. However, the current workflow is slow and labor intensive with respect to assembly of genetic parts and characterization of production yields because of the slow growth rates of these organisms. Here, we review recent progre...