The Red Microalga Galdieria as a Promising Organism for Applications in Biotechnology
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89810" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89810</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89810" target="_blank" >10.5772/intechopen.89810</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Red Microalga Galdieria as a Promising Organism for Applications in Biotechnology
Original language description
The genus Galdieria refers to red algae and includes microscopic inhabitants of highly acidic (pH 1–2), often volcanic habitats. They are thermophilic or thermo-tolerant organisms, some of them surviving temperatures up to 56°C. As other extremophilic microorganisms, they exhibit unique features derived from their modified metabolisms. In this chapter, we will review the special abilities of Galdieria species such as metabolic flexibility to grow photoautotrophically, heterotrophically or mixotrophically, ability to utilize a whole range of unusual carbon sources, capability of surviving extreme environments or their extremely high resistance to metals. We will discuss the potential of Galdieria for applications in biotechnology, for example, phycocyanin production, nutrient removal from urban wastewaters, bio-mining, treatment of acidic mine drainage, selective metal precipitation, bioremediation of acidic metal-contaminated areas or recovery of critical and scarce metals from secondary sources.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10606 - Microbiology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1416" target="_blank" >LO1416: Algatech plus</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Microalgae - From Physiology to Application
ISBN
978-1-83880-036-9
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
229
Publisher name
IntechOpen
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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