This work had the support of Funda??o para aCiência e Tecnologia (FCT), through the strategicproject UID/MAR/04292/2013 granted to MARE.This work had also the support from the European Union through EASME Blue Labs project AMALIA—Algae-to-MArket Lab IdeAs (EASME/EMFF/2016/1.2.1.4/03/SI2.750419). This work had also received funding from European Structural & Investment Funds through the COMPETE Programme and from National Funds through FCT—Funda??o para a Ciência e a Tecnologia under the Programme grant SAICTPAC/0019/2015. We would like to acknowledge the support of ALGAplus for giving the opportunity of culturing the B . bifurcata sample that was used for this work. We also want to especially thank Dr. Gordon McDougall from The James Hutton Institute, Scotland, for reviewing this manuscript. （FCT）