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Features of the microalga Raphidocelis subcapitata: physiology and applications
| datacite.subject.fos | Engenharia e Tecnologia | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 09:Indústria, Inovação e Infraestruturas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado, Manuela D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Soares, Eduardo V. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-12T18:45:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-12T18:45:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The microalga Raphidocelis subcapitata was isolated from the Nitelva River (Norway) and subsequently deposited in the collection of the Norwegian Institute of Water Research as “Selenastrum capricornutum Printz”. This freshwater microalga, also known as Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, acquired much of its notoriety due to its high sensitivity to different chemical species, which makes it recommended by different international organizations for the assessment of ecotoxicity. However, outside this scope, R. subcapitata continues to be little explored. This review aims to shed light on a microalga that, despite its popularity, continues to be an “illustrious” unknown in many ways. Therefore, R. subcapitata taxonomy, phylogeny, shape, size/biovolume, cell ultra-structure, and reproduction are reviewed. The nutritional and cultural conditions, chronological aging, and maintenance and preservation of the alga are summarized and critically discussed. Applications of R. subcapitata, such as its use in aquatic toxicology (ecotoxicity assessment and elucidation of adverse toxic outcome pathways) are presented. Furthermore, the latest advances in the use of this alga in biotechnology, namely in the bioremediation of effluents and the production of value-added biomolecules and biofuels, are highlighted. To end, a perspective regarding the future exploitation of R. subcapitata potentialities, in a modern concept of biorefinery, is outlined. | eng |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UIDB/04469/2020 unit, with DOI 10.54499/UIDB/04469/2020, and by LABBELS – Associate Laboratory in Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems, LA/P/0029/2020. Manuela D. Machado thanks FCT for funding through program DL 57/2016- Norma Transitória. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Machado, M.D., Soares, E.V. Features of the microalga Raphidocelis subcapitata: physiology and applications. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 108, 219 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-024-13038-0 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00253-024-13038-0 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0175-7598 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/29487 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.relation | Centre of Biological Engineering of the University of Minho | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00253-024-13038-0 | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Biorefinery | |
| dc.subject | Ecotoxicity | |
| dc.subject | Microalga nutrition and cultural conditions | |
| dc.subject | Physiology and phulogeny | |
| dc.subject | Reproduction | |
| dc.subject | Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata (=Selenastrum capricornutum) | |
| dc.title | Features of the microalga Raphidocelis subcapitata: physiology and applications | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.awardTitle | Centre of Biological Engineering of the University of Minho | |
| oaire.awardURI | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04469%2F2020/PT | |
| oaire.citation.title | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 18 | |
| oaire.fundingStream | 6817 - DCRRNI ID | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 | |
| project.funder.name | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
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