Marine Algal Biorefinery for Bioactive Compound Production
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 4267
Special Issue Editor
Interests: seaweed; extraction; fractionation; oligosaccharide; analytical chemistry; chromatography; biological activity
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine algae are a rich source of bioactive compounds. Functional components extracted from algal biomass are widely used for food, feed, fodder, fibre, cosmetics, nutraceutical and pharmaceuticals. These diverse compounds produced under a natural or controlled environment could be used in various industrial domains. The exploration of new compounds with real health effects, together with sustainable biorefinery solutions providing value-added product production, is now an intense field of research.
This Special Issue invites articles and comprehensive reviews with a focus on biorefinery and eco-friendly processes to provide strategies for algal products production, and advanced metabolite fractionation, including the identification of novel bioactive compounds by structural analysis and imaging.
Particular attention will be given to the following innovative track explorations:
- The impact of growth conditions (including Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture) on the seaweed metabolites;
- The biorefinery and eco-friendly processes used to provide a strategy for the release of metabolites;
- The advanced metabolite fractionation, identification of bioactive compounds by structural analysis and imaging, including high-screening content analysis and metabolomics;
Innovative methods for the determination of biological activities, mechanism study and relation between chemical structure and activity.
Dr. Gilles Bedoux
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- seaweed
- algal bioprocessing
- bioactive compounds
- biorefinery
- eco-extraction
- fractionation
- structural analysis
- biological activity
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