Specific growth rate of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlorella sorokiniana under medium duration light/dark cycles: 13-87 s

Progress in Industrial Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue C, 1999, Pages 323-333

  Janssen, Marcel ^a   Kuijpers, Tjibbe Chris ^a   Veldhoen, Bram ^a   Ternbach, Michel Brik ^a   Tramper, Johannes ^a   Mur, Luuc R ^b   Wijffels, René H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chlorella sorokiniana; Intermittent illumination; Light dark cycles; Specific growth rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957045454     PISSN: 00796352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1656(99)00084-x     Document Type: Article

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