ABSTRACT
Marine microalgae has gained worldwide attention due to its important role in CO2 recycling through photosynthesis, thus addressing a critical issue of producing sustainable energy without massive CO2 release (Matsunaga et al. 2015; Tanaka et al. 2015) and promising source for high-value-added renewables along with sustainable biofuel production (Asha et al. 2015; Jutur and Asha 2015a). These photosynthetic organisms originated as much as 1500 million years ago, evolving as major players in global energy/ biomass production and biogeochemical recycling, and are well known for its distribution in all aquatic habitats including freshwater, brackish environments, and marine and fully saline environments throughout the warm temperate and tropical regions of the world (Grossman 2005; Zhang et al. 2012). Perhaps these diverse group of unicellular eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms are responsible for about 40%–50% of marine photosynthesis
CONTENTS
15.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................283 15.1.1 Marine Microalgae .................................................................................................283 15.1.2 De Novo Transcriptomics ......................................................................................284
