All photographs and artwork reproduced with permission of the authors. ( C4) The FMSA Tower concept project, a self-sustainable skyscraper. ( C3) Concept image created for the Perth Photobioreactor Design and copyright to Tom Wiscombe architecture. ( C2) Process Zero Exterior Facade Detail: algae, housed in glass tubes covering the building’s exterior, filters wastewater, consumes carbon dioxide from the nearby highway and uses photosynthesis to produce energy. Available as fine art limited edition prints - London, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Shanghai, Dubai and many more. ( C1) Process Zero Exterior: the eight-story, 1960s-era building is among the 362 million square feet of office space the GSA must retrofit to reduce greenhouse gases by 30 percent before the 2020 deadline. A worldwide series of tiny planet photography by international award-winning photographer Paul Reiffer. ( B) Urban Algae Façade prototype by Cesare Griffa and Carlo Ratti Associati prototyping team: Matteo Amela, Federico Borello, Marco Caprani technical support by Environment Park Spa, Fotosintetica & Microbiologica Srl lighting by iGuzzini. Idea, concept and authorship: SPLITTERWERK, Label for Fine Arts, Graz Arup GmbH, Berlin B+G Ingenieure Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH, Frankfurt Immosolar GmbH, Hamburg. ( A) Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ)-The Clever Treefrog-The Algaehouse, housing-project at the IBA Hamburg. This manuscript reviews the environmental role of marine cyanobacteria with a particular focus on their secondary metabolites and discusses current and future developments in both the production of desired cyanobacterial metabolites and their potential uses in future innovative projects.īiotechnology microalgae natural products. Recent advances in molecular biology techniques have considerably enhanced the potential for industries to optimize the production of cyanobacteria secondary metabolites with desired functions. Being autotrophic organisms, cyanobacteria are well suited for large-scale biotechnological applications due to the low requirements for organic nutrients. Cyanobacteria are currently regarded as an important source of nutrients and biofuels and form an integral part of novel innovative energy-efficient designs. Secondary metabolites produced by these organisms are diverse and complex these include compounds, such as pigments and fluorescent dyes, as well as biologically-active compounds with a particular interest for the pharmaceutical industry. Besides being an essential source of atmospheric oxygen, marine cyanobacteria are prolific secondary metabolite producers, often despite the exceptionally small genomes. Throughout the last few billion years, they have played a major role in shaping the Earth as the planet we live in, and they continue to play a significant role in our everyday lives. Cyanobacteria are among the first microorganisms to have inhabited the Earth.
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