Abstract Microalgae cultivation is considered fit to the concept of green economy, in which greenhouse gases (GHG’s) mitigation and production valuable substances performed simultaneously. Carbon dioxide consumption by algal cells reduces GHG’s emission atmosphere, while biomass conversion biofuel feedstock supports circular economy microalgae process. In this study, Chlorella sp. was cultivate...

We carried out experiments to evaluate seasonal changes in the impacts of UV radiation (UVR, 280-400 nm) on photosynthetic carbon fixation of phytoplankton assemblages. Surface water samples were obtained in the coastal area of the South China Sea, where chlorophyll a ranged 0.72-3.82 microg L(-1). Assimilation numbers (photosynthetic carbon fixation rate per chl a) were significantly higher du...

Carbon fixation is the process by which CO(2) is incorporated into organic compounds. In modern agriculture in which water, light, and nutrients can be abundant, carbon fixation could become a significant growth-limiting factor. Hence, increasing the fixation rate is of major importance in the road toward sustainability in food and energy production. There have been recent attempts to improve t...

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants exhibit a complex interplay between CO(2) fixation by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco), and carbon demand for CAM maintenance and growth. This study investigated the flux of carbon from PEPC and direct Rubisco fixation to different leaf carbon pools and to phloem sap over the diurnal cy...

Chloroplasts isolated by methods similar to that described by Arnon et al. (1) are capable of incorporating acetate carbon into both lipid and n)on-lipid materials when fortified with appropriate cofactors (2, 3,4, 5). The actual rate of incorporation of acetate carbon in these preparations was, however, very small compared with the normal rate of photosynthesis (1-2 jumoles/mg chlorophyll'hr) ...

Marine planktonic bacteria often live in habitats with extremely low concentrations of dissolved organic matter (DOM). To study the use of trace amounts of DOM by the facultatively oligotrophic Pseudovibrio sp. FO-BEG1, we investigated the composition of artificial and natural seawater before and after growth. We determined the concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), total dissolved n...

low grade grape juice concentrate was used as carbon source for xanthan production. significant factors affecting xanthan concentration, productivity and viscosity were investigated using plackett-burman design. based on the obtained results, carbon and nitrogen concentrations, inoculum size and agitation rate, were assumed as significant factors. broth culture viscosity and xanthan concentrati...

In vitro observations of net community production (NCP) imply that the oligotrophic subtropical gyres of the open ocean are net heterotrophic; in situ observations, in contrast, consistently imply that they are net autotrophic. At least one approach must be returning an incorrect answer. We find that (a) no bias in in situ oxygen-based production estimates would give false-positive (net autotro...

Several lines of evidence indicate that biotin is involved in the biological fixation of carbon dioxide. Lardy, Potter, and Elvehjem (1) have demonstrated that the biotin requirement of Lactobacillus arabinosus is partially replaceable by oxalacetate and that the growth stimulation of this organism by carbon dioxide is evident only when biotin is present. From microbiological studies with antim...

High-latitude oceans are areas of high primary production despite temperatures that are often well below the thermal optima of enzymes, including the key Calvin Cycle enzyme, Ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco). We measured carbon fixation rates, protein content and Rubisco abundance and catalytic rates during an intense diatom bloom in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP...