on top of its involvement in the consumer, food, and health industries, "dunaliella" is also becoming very useful in biofuel research. "d. salina" in particular can accumulate very high amounts of starches and lipids under stressful conditions; both of which are very critical in creating successful biofuels. since other genera of green algae have complications in growth effectiveness under stressful conditions such as hypersaline environments, "d. salina" serves as very helpful organism for researching optimal stress levels for optimal biomass production conditions.