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Heterotrophic growth of blue-gren algae in dim light.
- Source :
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Journal of bacteriology [J Bacteriol] 1971 Mar; Vol. 105 (3), pp. 685-9. - Publication Year :
- 1971
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Abstract
- A unicellular blue-green alga, Agmenellum quadruplicatum, and a filamentous blue-green alga, Lyngbya lagerheimíi, were grown heterotrophically in dim light with glucose as major source of carbon and possibly energy. The dim-light conditions did not support autotrophic growth. The two blue-green algae appeared to have the same metabolic block, namely an incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle, as has been found in other obligately phototrophic blue-green algae. Under dim-light conditions, glucose made a greater contribution to cell constituents (amino acids) of A. quadruplicatum and L. lagerheimii than under high-light conditions.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0021-9193
- Volume :
- 105
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of bacteriology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 4994034
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.105.3.685-689.1971