Heterotrophic cultures of microalgae: Metabolism and potential products

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-36

  Perez Garcia, Octavio ^a   Escalante, Froylan M E ^a   de Bashan, Luz E ^a,b   Bashan, Yoav ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b The Bashan Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Carbon metabolism; Heterotrophic growth; Lipids; Microalgae; Nitrogen metabolism; Pigments wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CARBON; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

'CURRENT; A-CARBON; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; HETEROTROPHIC CULTURE; HETEROTROPHIC GROWTH; MICRO-ALGAE; MICROALGAE CULTIVATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PIGMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MICROALGAE;

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMMONIA LIGASE; BIODIESEL; BIOFUEL; CAROTENOID; FRUCTOSE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLYCEROL; LIPID; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PIGMENT; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UREA;

AUTOTROPHY; BIOFUEL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPHY; LIGHT EFFECT; LIPID; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ALGAL GROWTH; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; AUTOTROPHY; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLYCOLYSIS; HETEROTROPH; MICROALGA; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRYMNESIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78649649684     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.08.037     Document Type: Review

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