Overview
- Provides a complete picture of the algal biotech industry, its products and challenges
- Explores the economic potential of algae biotechnology
- Updates on the latest developments in key technologies applied in algal biotechnology
Part of the book series: Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology (GCBB)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Genetic and Metabolic Engineering
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Integrated Approaches
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Framework and Progress of Practical Applications
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About this book
Algae offer great potential to support the building of a bio-based economy and they can contribute new solutions to some of the grand challenges of the 21st century. Despite significant progress, algae biotechnology is yet far from fulfilling its potential. How to unleash this enormous potential is the challenge that the own field is facing. New cultivation technologies and bioprocess engineering allow for optimization of the operation strategy of state-of the art industrial-scale production systems and they reduce the production costs. Parallel to this, new molecular technologies for genetic and metabolic engineering of (micro)algae develop quickly. The optimization of existing biochemical pathways or the introduction of pathway components makes high-yield production of specific metabolites possible. Novel screening technologies including high-throughput technologies enables testing of extremely large numbers of samples and, thus, allow for large scale modelling of biomolecular processes, which would have not been possible in the past. Moreover, profitable production can demand for integrated biorefining, which combines consecutive processes and various feedstocks to produce both transportation fuel, electric energy and valuable chemicals.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Armin Hallmann is professor and head of the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Plants at Bielefeld University, Germany. Since more than 25 years, he utilizes eukaryotic microalgae as model systems for his research in the fields of developmental biology, molecular cell biology, biochemistry and biotechnology. Before he came to Bielefeld University in 2003, he taught at the University of Regensburg, Germany and at the Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. He is author, reviewer and editor of numerous scientific publications (articles, reviews, book contributions) that appeared in international leading scientific journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grand Challenges in Algae Biotechnology
Editors: Armin Hallmann, Pabulo H. Rampelotto
Series Title: Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25233-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25232-8Published: 03 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25235-9Published: 06 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25233-5Published: 02 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2367-1017
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 591
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Applied Microbiology, Eukaryotic Microbiology