Maeda I, Seto Y, Ueda S, Cheng Y, Hari J, Kawase M, Miyasaka H, Yagi K. Simultaneous control of turbidity and dilution rate through adjustment of medium composition in semi-continuousChlamydomonas cultures.
Biotechnol Bioeng 2006;
94:722-9. [PMID:
16470602 DOI:
10.1002/bit.20884]
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Abstract
For production of starch in algal cultures, a growth rate limited by a nutrient is an important factor. Under phototrophic conditions, turbidity must be also paid attention, as the shading effect may affect its productivity. Semi-continuous cultivation methods, which enable control of turbidity and dilution rate (D) at the same time, have been developed for evaluation of those factors on starch production in Chlamydomonas sp. A specific feature of the methods is in a process of alternately feeding medium adjusted at two different nitrogen (N) concentrations. In the turbidostat-based method, a turbidostat culture was operated repeating three steps of determining D within a preset interval, alternating media by comparing the D with a preset value, and adjusting D in the next interval by feeding the selected medium. In the chemostat-based method, turbidity of a chemostat culture was controlled by repeating two steps of alternating media by comparing transmitted photon flux intensity (I) with a preset value and adjusting I by feeding the selected medium. D controlled by the turbidostat-based method reached quickly a preset value as low as 0.010/h, and then it was dispersed around but above the preset value. On the other hand, mean N concentrations of fed media formed a plateau. In the chemostat-based method, I was well controlled to a preset value while the mean N concentrations were a bit fluctuated. Starch concentration varied from 0.052 to 0.41 g/L with turbidity and D defined by these methods.
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