Microalgae as sustainable cell factories

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 261-274

  Chisti, Yusuf ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biofertilizers; Biofuels; Carbon sequestration; Cyanobacteria; Environmental sustainability; Microalgae; Photobioreactors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877285601     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2006.018     Document Type: Article

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