NFMC is an Infrastructural Research Facility established by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India as one of nearly a dozen such Facilities in different parts of India.
Globally biodiesel is a fast expanding industry that is facing a growing dilemma and need a potent source to keeping up with demand.
Cyanobacteria exhibit ability to sequester radio nuclides through various mechanisms. Of which, siderophores constitute a major class of naturally occurring chelators.
Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) a cytosolic enzyme of higher plants is also found in bacteria and cyanobacteria.
The cold loving, innate, photosynthetic microbial occupants of the cryosphere are termed as psychrophilic microalgae which are the prime component of the polar food web.
