Vanadium an essential element for some marine macroalgae
- 31 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Planta
- Vol. 154 (5), 393-396
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01267804
Abstract
In some marine algae cultivated axenically in the artificial medium ASP6 F2 (pH 8.3) vanadium at 1–100 μg l-1 increases the fresh weight. In the multicellular brown algaFucus spiralis 10 μg V I-1 enhances the fresh weight by about 400% while in the green algaEnteromorpha compressa the yield is increased by 90%. Red algae do not respond to vanadium. InFucus morphological effects are displayed in more frequent branching and/or broader blades. No significant increase in the chlorophyll content could be demonstrated at the early stage at which these morphological effects first appeared. Later the chlorophyll content increased.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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