The microalgal cell is the most important component of the algal bio-oil production system. Its photosynthetic and metabolic capabilities define the operational limits of biomass and triacylglyceride synthesis which controls bio-oil productivity. Microalgae are tremendously diverse and have expanded to occupy every terrestrial, freshwater and marine environment capable of supporting photoautotrophic metabolism of [1,23]. Despite, however, the huge microalgal biodiversity available, which is estimated to number over a million species [1,3, screening for industrialbioenergy carbon capture (BECC) strains has been limited limited in scale and largely confined to screens of pre-existing academic culture collections which number less than 30,000 strains [4,5,6,7,8]. Performance testing in large scale biofuel programmes has therefore been limited to Chlorella, Desmodesmus, Monoraphidium, Scenedesmus and Nannochloropsis strains which respond poorly to abiotic and biotic stresses leading to very low biomass production and lipid content [9, 10.
To address this fundamental limitation, new strains with higher real-world triacylglyceride productivity are required that can operate efficiently under the multiple abiotic stresses experienced during industrial scale culture. Therefore, a key element in HutanBio’s successful technology is our strain library.
Our bioprospecting programme succesfully generated an industrial strain library of over 400 physiologically robust, high biomass, fast-growing marine microalgae that thrive under high light, temperature and salinity abiotic stressors as well as exhibit resistance to biotic stressors. This is the largest and best characterised tropical marine industrial microalgae strain library available. These strains provide productivity with high abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.
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