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Dunaliella is a unicellular, biflagellate, naked green alga (Chlorophyceae, Dunaliellales), and the type species of this genus, Dunaliella salina (Dunal) Teodoresco is often found in natural hypersaline waters where it colours the brines red (Teodoresco, 1905). This algal species was first recognised as containing high intracellular concentrations of β-carotene by Mil’ko (1963) and Aasen et al (1969). Initial research on the potential of using this alga as a commercial source of β-carotene began in the Ukraine in the 1960s (cf. Massyuk, 1966; Massyuk & Abdula, 1969) and it was later also proposed as a commercial source of glycerol (Ben-Amotz, 1980; Chen & Chi, 1981; Ben-Amotz & Avron, 1982).
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Borowitzka, L.J., Borowitzka, M.A. (1989). β-Carotene (Provitamin A) Production with Algae. In: Vandamme, E.J. (eds) Biotechnology of Vitamins, Pigments and Growth Factors. Elsevier Applied Biotechnology Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1111-6_2
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