Table 1.

Reports showing lipid content ≥50% (dry cell weight) in microalgae under specific culture conditions.

Microalga	Culture condition	Lipid content (% dcw)	Reference
Dunaliella sp.	1 M NaCl	71	Takagi et al., 2006
Scenedesmus obliquus	Nitrogen and phosphorus limitations in presence of thiosulphate	58	Mandal and Mallick, 2009
Nannochloropsis oculata NCTU-3	2% CO2 sparging	50	Chiu et al., 2009
Neochloris oleoabundans	Nitrogen limitation	56	Gouveia and Oliveira, 2009
Nannochloropsis sp. F&M-M24	Nitrogen deficiency	60	Rodolfi et al., 2009
	Phosphorus deficiency	50
Choricystis minor	Nitrate and phosphate limitations	60	Sobczuk and Chisti, 2010
Chlorella protothecoides	Nitrogen deficiency under heterotrophy with sweet sorghum hydrolysate	50	Gao et al., 2010
Chlorella zofingiensis	Nitrogen limitation	55	Feng P. et al., 2011
Isochrysis zhangjiangensis	Elevated nitrogen addition (0.9%)	53	Feng D. et al., 2011
Nannochloropsis sp.	15% CO2 sparging under nitrogen starvation and high light intensity	60	Jiang et al., 2011
Chlorella vulgaris	Nitrogen starvation with 2–3% CO2 sparging	53	Mujtaba et al., 2012
Nannochloropsis sp.	32 g L-1 salinity with continuous CO2 sparging	52	Moazami et al., 2012
Chlorella vulgaris	Nitrogen, iron, and phosphorus limitations	57	Mallick et al., 2012
Scenedesmus sp. strain R-16	Nitrogen deficiency	53	Ren et al., 2013
Tetraselmis sp. MUR-233	Semi-continuous cultivation with CO2 sparging	55	Raes et al., 2014
Chlorella pyrenoidosa	Nitrogen deficiency	50	Fan et al., 2014
Nannochloropsis oceanica IMET1	High light intensity and nitrogen depleted culture conditions	54	Xiao et al., 2015
Nannochloropsis salina	Limited nitrogen addition	56	Fakhry and Maghraby, 2015
Chlorella vulgaris	Municipal wastewater utilization with nitrogen-limitation approach	63	Robles-Heredia et al., 2015
Nannochloropsis gaditana 1049	Seawater medium with Vitamin B12, thiamine, biotin, and air with 5% CO2 sparging	61	Hu et al., 2015