ON PIGMENTS, GROWTH, AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS OF PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM12
- 1 December 1968
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Phycology
- Vol. 4 (4), 349-355
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.1968.tb04707.x
Abstract
A maximum growth rate with doubling time of 18 hr at 18 C could be maintained. Continuous cultures at about half maximum growth rate provided cells for study of pigments and photosynthesis. The light intensity curve of photosynthesis had no unusual features and showed light-saturated rates of 30-35 μl O2/mrn3-hr at 18 C. Pigment analysis showed chlorophylls a and c (a/c ratio = 4), fucoxanthin, β-carotene, and diadinoxanthin. Growth under red light (±660 mμ) altered pigments only by decrease in chlorophyll c to about one-half the content obtained under clear tungsten lamps. The large and anomalous spectral shift in fucoxanthin following organic solvent extraction runs confirmed, but efforts to isolate a native fucoxanthin were unsuccessful. Spectral analysis of acetone extracts and sonicated cell preparations allowed estimate of fractional absorption by each component pigment. The analysis shows that chlorophyll a and fucoxanthin are the principal light absorbing pigments and that absorption by other carotenoids is very small.Keywords
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