Advancements in algal biorefineries for sustainable agriculture: Biofuels, high-value products, and environmental solutions

Biodiesel from microalgae

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Microalgae for biodiesel production and other applications: A review

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Biofuels from Microalgae—A Review of Technologies for Production, Processing, and Extractions of Biofuels and Co-Products

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Plant biostimulants: Definition, concept, main categories and regulation

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Blooms like it hot

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Micro-algae as a source of protein

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Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation

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Life-Cycle Assessment of Biodiesel Production from Microalgae

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Microalgae biorefinery: High value products perspectives

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Microalgae as a raw material for biofuels production

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Dual role of microalgae: Phycoremediation of domestic wastewater and biomass production for sustainable biofuels production

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Cultivation of Green Algae Chlorella sp. in Different Wastewaters from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant

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Biological activities and potential health benefits of sulfated polysaccharides derived from marine algae

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Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass: Developments from batch to continuous process

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Biorefineries in circular bioeconomy: A comprehensive review

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Recent advances in the development of biomass gasification technology: A comprehensive review

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Decolorization of dye wastewaters by biosorbents: A review

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Biofuels from algae: Challenges and potential

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It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems

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Microalgae cultivation in a wastewater dominated by carpet mill effluents for biofuel applications

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Exploring Farmers' Cultural Resistance to Voluntary Agri‐environmental Schemes

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Fish immune system and its nutritional modulation for preventive health care

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Microalgal Biostimulants and Biofertilisers in Crop Productions

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Nutritional and therapeutic potential of spirulina

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Innovative natural functional ingredients from microalgae

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Algal capture of carbon dioxide; biomass generation as a tool for greenhouse gas mitigation with reference to New Zealand energy strategy and policy

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Phytohormones in algae

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Central Carbon Metabolism and Electron Transport in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Metabolic Constraints for Carbon Partitioning between Oil and Starch

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Seaweed Polysaccharides and Derived Oligosaccharides Stimulate Defense Responses and Protection Against Pathogens in Plants

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Emerging Technologies in Algal Biotechnology: Toward the Establishment of a Sustainable, Algae-Based Bioeconomy

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Sustainable Treatment of Aquaculture Effluents—What Can We Learn from the Past for the Future?

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Algae biostimulants: A critical look at microalgal biostimulants for sustainable agricultural practices

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Food and feed products from micro-algae: Market opportunities and challenges for the EU

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Minimizing carbon footprint via microalgae as a biological capture

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Recent trends in the mass cultivation of algae in raceway ponds

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Algal biorefinery: A sustainable approach to valorize algal-based biomass towards multiple product recovery

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Cyanobacteria as a source of biofertilizers for sustainable agriculture

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A Circular Bioeconomy with Biobased Products from CO 2 Sequestration

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Microalgae biomass production for a biorefinery system: Recent advances and the way towards sustainability

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National microalgae biofuel production potential and resource demand

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Current Bottlenecks and Challenges of the Microalgal Biorefinery

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Microwave-Assisted Extraction for Microalgae: From Biofuels to Biorefinery

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Agricultural waste biorefinery development towards circular bioeconomy

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Recent advances of thermochemical conversion processes for biorefinery

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Light management technologies for increasing algal photobioreactor efficiency

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Zero-waste algal biorefinery for bioenergy and biochar: A green leap towards achieving energy and environmental sustainability

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Biomass/Biochar carbon materials for CO2 capture and sequestration by cyclic adsorption processes: A review and prospects for future directions

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Can circular bioeconomy be fueled by waste biorefineries — A closer look

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Advances in biogas valorization and utilization systems: A comprehensive review

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Tools for High-Performance Microalgal Wastewater Treatment and Algal Biorefinery: A Critical Review

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Using microalgae in the circular economy to valorise anaerobic digestate: challenges and opportunities

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Treatment of dairy and swine manure effluents using freshwater algae: fatty acid content and composition of algal biomass at different manure loading rates

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Microalgae polysaccharides bio-stimulating effect on tomato plants: Growth and metabolic distribution

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Root morphological and molecular responses induced by microalgae extracts in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

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Photobioreactors for cultivation and synthesis: Specifications, challenges, and perspectives

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Plant Biostimulants from Cyanobacteria: An Emerging Strategy to Improve Yields and Sustainability in Agriculture

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Microalgae based biofertilizers: A biorefinery approach to phycoremediate wastewater and harvest biodiesel and manure

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Effect of microalgae hydrolysate foliar application (Arthrospira platensis and Scenedesmus sp.) on Petunia x hybrida growth

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Scenedesmus obliquus microalga‐based biorefinery – from brewery effluent to bioactive compounds, biofuels and biofertilizers – aiming at a circular bioeconomy

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Natural Antioxidants: Function and Sources

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Effect of aromatic amine antioxidants on NO emissions from a soybean biodiesel powered DI diesel engine

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Co-digestion of cultivated microalgae and sewage sludge from municipal waste water treatment

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Refining Biomass Residues for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts

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Optimal design of microalgae-based biorefinery: Economics, opportunities and challenges

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Microalgae as Biostimulants: A New Approach in Agriculture

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Biostimulant Effect and Biochemical Response in Lettuce Seedlings Treated with A Scenedesmus quadricauda Extract

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Third-generation biorefineries: a sustainable platform for food, clean energy, and nutraceuticals production

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Circular economy fertilization: Phycoremediated algal biomass as biofertilizers for sustainable crop production

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Emerging Applications of Chlorella sp. and Spirulina (Arthrospira) sp.

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Antiherpetic Activities of Sulfated Polysaccharides from Green Algae

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Evaluation of Supercritical Extracts of Algae as Biostimulants of Plant Growth in Field Trials

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A critical review on the development stage of biorefinery systems towards the management of apple processing-derived waste

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Synthetic Biology Approaches To Enhance Microalgal Productivity

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Valorization of agro-industrial residues for production of commercial biorefinery products

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CRISPR-based bioengineering in microalgae for production of industrially important biomolecules

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Plant Growth Biostimulants, Dietary Feed Supplements and Cosmetics Formulated with Supercritical CO2 Algal Extracts

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Cyanobacteria as a source of biofertilizers for sustainable agriculture

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Microalgae biofilm in soil: Greenhouse gas emissions, ammonia volatilization and plant growth

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Microalgae cultivation for treating agricultural effluent and producing value-added products

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Integrated microalgal biorefinery for the production and application of biostimulants in circular bioeconomy

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Algae biorefinery: A promising approach to promote microalgae industry and waste utilization

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Microbial fixation of CO2 in water bodies and in drylands to combat climate change, soil loss and desertification

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Bio-Products from Algae-Based Biorefinery on Wastewater: A Review

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High value add bio-based low-carbon materials: Conversion processes and circular economy

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Algae Biomass: Characteristics and Applications

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Mixotrophic cultivation of microalgae coupled with anaerobic hydrolysis for sustainable treatment of municipal wastewater in a hybrid system of anaerobic membrane bioreactor and membrane photobioreactor

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Towards a circular economy: A novel microalgal two-step growth approach to treat excess nutrients from digestate and to produce biomass for animal feed

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Techno-economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of an Integrated Wastewater-Derived Duckweed Biorefinery

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Exploitation of algal-bacterial associations in a two-stage biohydrogen and biogas generation process

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Economics of Microalgae Biomass Production

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Life cycle assessment of biofuels from an integrated Brazilian algae-sugarcane biorefinery

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Microalgae-Based Biorefinery for Utilization of Carbon Dioxide for Production of Valuable Bioproducts

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Algae As Fertilizers, Biostimulants, and Regulators of Plant Growth

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A cascade biorefinery for the valorization of microalgal biomass: biodiesel, biogas, fertilizers and high valuable compounds

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