| Title | Enhancing sustainability through microalgae cultivation in urban wastewater for biostimulant production and nutrient recovery |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 25443 |
| Authors | Alvarez-González, A; de Morais, EG; Planas-Carbonell, A; Uggetti, E |
| Title | Enhancing sustainability through microalgae cultivation in urban wastewater for biostimulant production and nutrient recovery |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Microalgae can produce biostimulants in form of phytohormones, which are compounds that, even if applied in low concentrations, can have stimulant effects on plants growth and can enhance their quality and their resistance to stress. Considering that microalgal biomass can grow recovering nutrients from wastewater, this circular approach allows to use residues for the production of high added value compounds (such as phytohormones) at low cost. The interest on biostimulants production from microalgae have recently raised. Scientists are focused on the direct application of these cellular extracts on plants, while the number of studies on the identification of bioactive molecules, such as phytohormones, is very scarce. Two cyanobacteria strains (Synechocystis sp. (SY) and Phormidium sp. (PH)) and a chlorophyte (Scenedesmus sp. (SC)) were cultured in laboratory-scale PBRs with a working volume of 2.5 L in secondary urban wastewater varying N:P ratio in the cultures to obtain the highest productivity. The variation of N:P ratio affects microalgae growth, and SY and PH presented higher productivities (73 and 48 mg L-1 d, respectively) under higher N:P ratio (> 22:1). Microalgal biomass was freeze-dried and phytohormones content was measured with ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). The three microalgae showed similar phytohormones profiles, being the auxin (indole-3-acetic acid, IAA) the most abundant (72 ng g-DW1 in SY). Proteins were major macronutrient for all strains, reaching 48 %DW in PH culture. To optimize the biostimulants production, a balance between the pro-duction of such compounds, biomass productivity and nutrients removal should be taken into consideration. In this sense, SC was the most promising strain, showing the highest N and P removal rates (73 % and 59 %, respectively) while producing phytohormones. |
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166878 |
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