Wastewater contains various macro and micronutrients essential for growth. Microalgae-based wastewater treatment offers an alternative process that couples nutrient uptake and the value-added production of a biofuels feedstock or other algal-derived products. In this review, we summarize previous efforts to cultivate the microalgae Scenedesmus sp. in different wastewater sources, and report on the effectiveness of nutrient and organic substrate removal, CO₂ mitigation, and resulting biomass productivities. As biomass productivity is a function of growth, we also investigated the extent of functional genomics resources that are available to study the regulation of central carbon metabolism in Scenedesmus.

废水中含有对生长至关重要的各种常量和微量营养素。基于微藻的废水处理提供了一种替代过程，该过程将养分吸收与生物燃料原料或其他藻类衍生产品的增值生产相结合。在这篇综述中，我们总结了以前为培养微藻Scenedesmus sp。所做的努力。在不同废水源中的排放，并报告了去除营养物和有机底物的有效性，缓解了CO ₂以及由此产生的生物量生产率。由于生物量生产力是增长的函数，因此我们还研究了可用于研究Scenedesmus中中央碳代谢调控的功能基因组学资源的范围。