New Strains and the Future of Microalgae Production

Over the last decades the development of microalgae biotechnology has provided the commercial scale with a focus on few species grown in open ponds.

Nowadays new equipment and methodologies of genetic manipulation are being applied to the agricultural processes with success, having increased the productivity and the environmental sustainability of the plantations of soybean and corn.

As in agriculture since 2000, the prospection of new strains of microalgae and their genetic manipulation may contribute to raising crop productivity in the near future.