Blue Biotechnology: Expanding Horizons with Marine Resources explores how marine organisms and their biological diversity can be harnessed to develop products, processes, and technologies for food, health, industry, and environmental management. Connecting biological discovery with practical applications, the book examines the opportunities and challenges of using marine resources responsibly.
Drawing on expertise across disciplines, this volume covers marine biodiversity, genetic resources, bioprospecting, and chemical ecology, alongside applications in aquaculture, agriculture, food and nutrition, industrial processes, medicine, and environmental remediation. It examines enabling tools such as genomics, genetic engineering, bioinformatics, and biosensors, with case studies illustrating their use in research and application development.
The book also explores how marine biotechnology can contribute to conservation, climate change adaptation, renewable energy, and the efficient use of biomass through biorefineries. Discussions of scale-up, commercialisation, training, and capacity building address the conditions needed to translate scientific advances into sustainable applications.
Written for researchers, industry scientists, and postgraduate students, Blue Biotechnology provides an interdisciplinary overview of the field, its methods, and its applications. It also offers policymakers and other professionals a scientific basis for assessing the potential and limitations of marine biotechnology within the blue bioeconomy.
