{"id":820624,"date":"2026-11-09T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/uncategorized-en-us\/2026\/09\/17\/poweralgae-new-opportunities-for-agriculture-from-microalgae\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:57:15","slug":"poweralgae-new-opportunities-for-agriculture-from-microalgae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/research-and-development\/2026\/11\/09\/poweralgae-new-opportunities-for-agriculture-from-microalgae\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerALGAE: new opportunities for agriculture from microalgae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Studying microalgae to develop new solutions for agriculture.<\/strong> This is the aim of PowerALGAE, a research project focusing on biostimulants and the bioeconomy of agricultural ecosystems.<\/p>\n<h2>The challenge: more resilient crops<\/h2>\n<p>Environmental conditions affect plant growth and crop yields. Climate change makes it increasingly important to identify tools that can support resource-use efficiency and crop adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, research into biostimulants explores molecules of agronomic interest that can support plants&#8217; responses to environmental stress and nutrient uptake.<\/p>\n<h2>The role of microalgae<\/h2>\n<p>PowerALGAE aims to synthesise biostimulant peptides in the green microalga <em>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii<\/em>. The project explores a biological platform for producing high-value molecules, with the aim of contributing to the development of sustainable fertiliser solutions.<\/p>\n<h2>From production to evaluation<\/h2>\n<p>The project includes studying the formulations and evaluating their effects in the soil\u2013plant system. The work also includes phenotyping agricultural species: observing plant characteristics to analyse their response to treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The research also examines the potential use of algal biomass as a soil amendment, in relation to the physical properties of soil and plants&#8217; responses to abiotic stress.<\/p>\n<h2>Project facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Field:<\/strong> plant biostimulants, microalgae and the bioeconomy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Programme:<\/strong> iNEST ecosystem, Spoke 7 \u2014 Smart agri-food.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Planned duration:<\/strong> 15 months.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong> project co-funded by the European Union through Italy&#8217;s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project connects the production of molecules through microalgae with the evaluation of their potential agricultural applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consorzioinest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/powerALGAE_ITA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the iNEST PowerALGAE project factsheet \u2014 PDF \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/research-and-development\/\">Explore the Group&#8217;s research and projects \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biotechnology and the bioeconomy meet in PowerALGAE, a project studying biostimulants for more resilient crops and sustainable fertiliser solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-and-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820790,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820624\/revisions\/820790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhdev.highqcell.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}