Valéria Montalescot

Cargill, Incorporated

Highlights-Smallholder seaweed farmers in low and middle-income countries produce a large proportion of the global produce of red seaweed (also called eucheumatoid seaweed) to feed the global market for carrageenan, an important gelling agent in many industries. However, they face major challenges linked to climate and environmental changes and eco...

Seaweed-based mariculture is an important source of livelihoods for impoverished coastal communities in Tanzania. However, the impacts of climate change across East Africa are putting a strain on the growth of the seaweed industry. Smallholder farmers are already mobilizing strategies to cope with challenges such as disease outbreaks, but they are...

Biorefinery approaches offer the potential to improve the economics of the microalgae industry by producing multiple products from a single source of biomass. Chromochloris zofingiensis shows great promise for biorefinery due to high biomass productivity and a diverse range of products including secondary carotenoids, predominantly astaxanthin; lip...

- Smallholder seaweed farmers in low and middle-income countries produce a large proportion of the global produce of red seaweed (also called eucheumatoid seaweed) to feed the global market for carrageenan, an important gelling agent in many industries. However, they face major challenges linked to climate and environmental changes and economic pre...

With increasing global demand for seaweed and derivative products including carrageenan, Malaysia has identified seaweed cultivation as a key sector in its Tenth Malaysian Plan, with the aim of increasing seaweed production and bringing economic benefits to coastal communities. After several years of growth however, since 2013 seaweed production ha...

Highlights 1. This policy brief highlights key challenges that must be addressed for the long-term sustainability of the global seaweed industry, ensuring its role in providing nature-based solutions within the sustainable ocean economy agenda and in contributing to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). 2. Seaweed...

Cottier-Cook, E.J., Nagabhatla, N., Asri, A., Beveridge, M., Bianchi, P., Bolton, J., Bondad-Reantaso, M.G., Brodie, J., Buschmann, A., Cabarubias, J., Campbell, I., Chopin, T., Critchley, A., De Lombaerde, P., Doumeizel, V., Gachon, C.M.M., Hayashi, L., Hewitt, C.L., Huang, J., Hurtado, A.Q., Kambey, C., Kim, G.H., Le Masson, V., Lim, P.E., Liu, T...

Societal Impact Statement Seaweed cultivation is the fastest‐growing aquaculture sector, with a demonstrable potential to drive development in some of the poorest coastal populations worldwide. However, sustainable exploitation, fair access and equitable benefits from marine genetic resources, such as seaweeds have yet to be fully realised. Patchy...

Samples of nitrogen-starved Parachlorella kessleri containing intact cells (IC), cells ground by bead milling (BM), and cells subjected to high-pressure cell disruption (HPD), together with their supernatants after centrifugation, were compared for granulometry and lipid profiles. The effects of disruption on the lipid profile and organisation were...

The method for treating a microalgal biomass, characterized in the following steps: having a microalgal biomass comprising at least 15% by weight of lipids relative to the total weight of the biomass and having a dry matter concentration of between 1 g/l and 200 g/l, milling said biomass by a bead mill, operated under the following conditions: the...

A study of cell disruption by bead milling for two microalgae, Nannochloropsis oculata and Porphyridium cruentum, was performed. Strains robustness was quantified by high-pressure disruption assays. The hydrodynamics in the bead mill grinding chamber was studied by Residence Time Distribution modeling. Operating parameters effects were analyzed and...

Over the past years, the substitution of the classical biochemical quantification techniques by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been widely studied on microalgae because of its tremendous application potential for bioprocess monitoring. In the present work, mandatory aspects that have never been approached by FTIR end-users worki...