TY - CHAP AU - Hector Osorio Urtubia AU - Lucy Belmar Betanzo AU - Mónica Vásquez ED - Nooruddin Thajuddin ED - Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran Y1 - 2016-06-29 PY - 2016 T1 - Microalgae and Cyanobacteria as Green Molecular Factories: Tools and Perspectives N2 - Algae - Organisms for Imminent Biotechnology will be useful source of information on basic and applied aspects of algae for post graduate students, researchers, scientists, agriculturists, and decision makers. The book comprises a total of 12 chapters covering various aspects of algae particularly on microalgal biotechnology, bloom dynamics, photobioreactor design and operation of microalgal mass cultivation, algae used as indicator of water quality, microalgal biosensors for ecological monitoring in aquatic environment, carbon capture and storage by microalgae to enhancing CO2 removal, synthesis and biotechnological potentials of algal nanoparticles, biofilms, silica-based nanovectors, challenges and opportunities in marine algae, and genetic identification and mass propagation of economically important seaweeds and seaweeds as source of new bioactive prototypes. BT - Algae SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/63006 DO - 10.5772/63006 SN - 978-953-51-2432-0 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -