Ammonium Utilization in Microalgae: A Sustainable Method for Wastewater Treatment

In plant cells, ammonium is considered the most convenient nitrogen source for cell metabolism. However, despite being preferred N form microalgae, at higher concentrations, it can be toxic, and cause growth inhibition. Microalgae’s tolerance to depends on species, with various taxa showing different thresholds of tolerability symptoms toxicity. environment, high concentrations represents a dangerous pollutant. It affect water quality, causing numerous environmental problems, including eutrophication downstream waters. For this reason, important treat wastewater remove nutrients before discharging into rivers, lakes, or seas. A valid sustainable alternative conventional treatments could provided by coupling nutrient removal from production valuable biomass. This review focused its importance in algal nutrition, but also problematic presence aquatic systems such as wastewaters. The aim work provide recent information exploitation microalgae role