Bioproducts from Cyanobacteria and Microalgae: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental engineering and biotechnology; bioplastics; PHA; sustainable bioproducts production; wastewater treatment; microalgae; cyanobacteria; water reuse; resource recovery; circular economy; modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue entitled “Bioproducts from Cyanobacteria and Microalgae: Current Trends and Future Perspectives” aims to present recent research on any aspect of the sustainable exploitation of cyanobacteria and microalgae for value-added bioproducts. These photosynthetic microorganisms are increasingly recognised as versatile biofactories capable of producing a wide array of compounds with applications in health, agriculture, food, and cosmetics.
Some of its focal points include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Bioproducts and their applications: such as pigments, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides, and nutraceuticals with pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, and agriculture applications.
- Process optimisation and engineering for enhanced productivity: innovations in cultivation, harvesting, genetic and metabolic engineering, and biorefinery processes to improve biomass and bioproducts yield.
- Cultivation systems: design, optimisation, and scaling of open ponds and photobioreactors.
- Omics-driven insights: Genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic studies elucidating microbiome interaction and bioproduct production. Investigations related with, microbial consortia and synthetic communities and its effect on bioproduct production, culture resilence and/or wastewater treatment.
- New promising strains: identification and classification of new cyanobacterial and microalgae strains with interesting properties for bioproducts production.
- Wastewater treatment: cyanobacteria and microalgae for treating industrial, agricultural, and municipal wastewater, and simultaneous production of valuable bioproducts.
- Environmental and economic sustainability of biorefineries: explores the techno-economic feasibility and life-cycle assessment of converting algal biomass into a range of high-value products, including bioplastics, and biofertilizers.
Reviews, original research, and communications will be welcome. This issue will provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of algal biotechnology and highlight promising directions for future research and commercialisation.
Dr. Estel Rueda
Guest Editor
Dr. Beatriz Altamira-Algarra
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- cyanobacteria
- microalgae
- bioproducts
- biotechnology
- biorefinery
- process optimisation
- genetic and metabolic engineering
- wastewater treatment
- cultivation systems
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