PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN ALGAE: II. GREEN ALGAE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DUNALIELLA SPP. AND TETRASELMIS SPP.
- 1 October 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Botany
- Vol. 44 (10) , 1247-1254
- https://doi.org/10.1139/b66-140
Abstract
The photosynthetic fixation of14CO2was studied in 10 species of chlorophycean algae and in 9 isolates of prasinophycean algae of the genus Tetraselmis.Green seaweeds had photosynthetic rates of 2.2 to 4.4 mg CO2 × h−1 × g−1, accumulated starch, glucose, fructose, and sucrose, and excreted very little recent photosynthate.Dunaliella spp. were distinguished by a high level of organic excretion (to 29.2% of the14C fixed in 2 hours), the production of glycerol and hydrogen sulfide, and the absence of dimethyl-β-propiothetin.Tetraselmis spp. excreted relatively small amounts of photosynthate in 2 hours, and produced mannitol and dimethyl-β-propiothetin but not hydrogen sulfide.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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