Adjusted light and dark cycles can optimize photosynthetic efficiency in algae growing in photobioreactors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Sforza, Eleonora ^a   Simionato, Diana ^a   Giacometti, Giorgio Mario ^a   Bertucco, Alberto ^a   Morosinotto, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALGA; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT STRESS; LIPOGENESIS; NANNOCHLOROPSIS SALINA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

LIGHT; MICROALGAE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; PHOTOPERIOD; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 84862669874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038975     Document Type: Article

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