title: Effects of bacterial communities on biofuel-producing microalgae: stimulation, inhibition and harvesting.
abstract: Despite the great interest in microalgae as a potential source of biofuel to substitute for fossil fuels, little information is available on the effects of bacterial symbionts in mass algal cultivation systems. The bacterial communities associated with microalgae are a crucial factor in the process of microalgal biomass and lipid production and may stimulate or inhibit growth of biofuel-producing microalgae. In addition, we discuss here the potential use of bacteria to harvest biofuel-producing microalgae. We propose that aggregation of microalgae by bacteria to achieve >90% reductions in volume followed by centrifugation could be an economic approach for harvesting of biofuel-producing microalgae. Our aims in this review are to promote understanding of the effects of bacterial communities on microalgae and draw attention to the importance of this topic in the microalgal biofuel field.
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization , Yantai Institute of Costal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Yantai , China .|b Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science , Baltimore , MD , USA and.|c State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences and Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coast and Wetland Ecosystem , School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University , Xiamen , China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: b Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science , Baltimore , MD , USA and.
authors.forename: Russell T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: c State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences and Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coast and Wetland Ecosystem , School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University , Xiamen , China.
authors.forename: Tianling
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization , Yantai Institute of Costal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Yantai , China .
authors.forename: Xiaoke
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization , Yantai Institute of Costal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Yantai , China .
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D058086:Microalgae; D059013:Microbial Consortia; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels
keywords: Aggregation; algicidal; diversity; large-scale; lipid; nutrient; phycosphere; symbionts