Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, New Delhi, India. This study was undertaken as a part of CSIR-NMITLI project (grant no.: 5/258/64/2009 — NMITLI; date: 19-04-2010) on "Biofuel from marine microalgae" co-funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES).
