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International Journal on Algae

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9429

Institutional price:	$905.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2002, Volume4

112 pages

Issue price - $216.00

Prospects of phycoerythrin isolation from cultures of Gracilaria verrucosa (Huds.) Papenf. (Rhodophyta)

B. N. Belyaev
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2. Nakhimov Pr., 335011 Sevastopol, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

M. V. Nekhoroshev
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2, Nakhimov Prosp., 99011 Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

It was demonstrated that cultivation conditions (including the period of intensive cultivation) strongly affect accumulation of R-phycoerythrin in thalli of the Black Sea alga Gracilaria verrucosa (Huds.) Papenf. f. procerima Esp. Application of the technological approach of "resting cultures" allows to optimize the cultural medium for intensive cultivation conditions, and to obtain maximal quantities of red pigment from the cultivated biomass of Gracilaria. Traditional technologies cannot produce such results.