Description
The marine environment accounts for most of the biodiversity on our planet, while offering a huge potential for the benefit and wellbeing of mankind. Its extensive resources already constitute the basis of many economic activities – but many more are expected in coming years. This book covers current knowledge on uses of marine algae to obtain bulk and fine chemicals, coupled with optimization of the underlying production and purification processes. Major gaps and potential opportunities in this field are discussed in a critical manner.
The currrent trends pertaining to marine macro- and microalgae are explained in a simple and understandable writing style. This book covers a wide variety of topics, and as such it will be appropriate as both student text and reference for advances researchers in the field.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Marine Algae: Overview
Ana Isabel Neto and Isabel Sousa Pinto
Importance of Seaweed in the Climate Change—Seaweed Solution
Ik Kyo Chung, Jung Hyun Oak, Jin Ae Lee, Tae-Ho Seo, Jong Gyu Kim and Kwang-Seok Park
Microalgal Metabolism and their Utilisation
Michael A. Borowitzka
Microalgal Biomass Production
Rathinam Raja, Hemaiswarya Shanmugam, Ramanujam Ravikumar, and Isabel S. Carvalho
Advances and Constraints of Seaweed Farming as a Basal Constituent for an Environmentally Sustainable Development of Aquaculture in Chile
Alejandro H. Buschmann, María C. Hernández-González, and Bárbara S. Labbé
Microalgal Downstream Processing: Harvesting, Drying, Extraction, Separation, and Purification
Xavier C. Fretté
Marine Algae Bioactivities
Catarina Vizetto-Duarte Carolina Bruno de Sousa, Maria Rodrigues, Luísa Custódio, Luísa Barreira and João Varela
Macroalgal phycocolloids
Leonel Pereira
Microalgae for Feed
Vítor Verdelho, João Navalho, and Ana P. Carvalho
Potential Use of Extracts of Seaweed Against Plant Pathogens
Jattinder Singh Sangha, Robin E. Ross, Sowmyalakshmi Subramanian, Alan T. Critchley and Balakrishnan Prithiviraj
The Cosmeceutical Properties of Compounds Derived from Marine Algae
Snezana Agatonovic-Kustrin and David W. Morton
Dinoflagellates and Toxin Production
Joana Assunção and F. Xavier Malcata
Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture: An Overview
Isabel C. Azevedo, Tania R. Pereira, Sara Barrento and Isabel Sousa Pinto
Alternative Green Biofuel from Microalgae: A Promising Renewable Resource
Katkam N. Gangadhar, João Varela and F. Xavier Malcata
Genetic Engineering Approaches for the Exploitation of Marine Algae as Potential Sources of Organic and Inorganic Biofuels
Maria da Glória Esquível, Julia Marín-Navarro, Teresa S. Pinto, and Joaquín Moreno
Present and Future Economic and Environmental Impacts of Microalgal Technology
Miguel Olaizola, Rob C. Brown, and Elizabeth D. Orchard
