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Comparisons were made of photosynthesis in three light limited cyclostat cultures (LD = 8:16, dilution rate 0.7 d-1) of Chlorella pyrenoidosa, differing only in the dynamics of irradiance supply: as a constant rate, i.e. a block culture; as a sine function of the light period, i.e. a sinusoidal culture; as an 8 h sine function superimposed by an 1 h sine function, i.e. an oscillating culture. The sinusoidal culture had a constant minimum quantum requirement for oxygen evolution (QR) of 10.8 over the photoperiod. The QR of the oscillating culture increased from 24 to 37 during the photoperiod. From changes in a and P max we suggest that: (l)photosynthetic units (PSU) of the block and sinusoidal culture increased in number; (2) increasingly fewer chlorophyll molecules participated in oxygenic photosynthesis with a decreasing turnover time of the PSU’s during an oscillating photoperiod. Values of I k decreased slightly in the block culture, increased slightly in the sinusoidal culture and showed a twofold increase in the oscillating culture. From the ratio of in situ oxygen production (qO2) and P max we infer a balanced equilibrium between photosystem activity and electron transport capacity for the block and sinusoidal culture. We hypothesize that the qO2 values of the oscillating culture underestimated true oxygen production rates due to a nonlinear response at peak light intensities. The results show that a dynamical photoperiod provoked significantly different photosynthetic responses, even though the overall growth rate was unaffected.
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Kroon, B.M.A., Burger-Wiersma, T., Visser, P.M., Mur, L.R. (1992). The effect of dynamic light regimes on Chlorella . In: Berman, T., Gons, H.J., Mur, L.R. (eds) The Daily Growth Cycle of Phytoplankton. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2805-6_6
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