Tolerance to Exogenously Added ROS Examined for Correlation with Enhanced Specific Growth Rates of Arthrospira Platensis

Avraham Ben-Sheleg; Avigad Vonshak

doi:10.1007/s10811-022-02688-0

Tolerance to Exogenously Added ROS Examined for Correlation with Enhanced Specific Growth Rates of Arthrospira Platensis

Avraham Ben-Sheleg, Avigad Vonshak

The French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands

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Abstract

The photosynthetic apparatus is a major proliferator of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are then scavenged by oxidative protective mechanisms. Here we investigated whether tolerance to exogenously added ROS and ROS synthesizers correlates with the growth characteristics of Arthrospira platensis, a cultivated species of cyanobacteria. We found that tolerance to Rose Bengal (RB), a singlet oxygen photosensitizer, correlates with increased maximum specific growth rates in A. platensis strains grown at both 20 and 30°C. Based on these findings, we suggest that RB could serve as an effective preliminary screening tool to identify the strains likely to have enhanced growth rates in high light environments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	777-787
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Applied Phycology
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-022-02688-0
State	Published - 23 Jan 2022

Keywords

Algal cultivation
Arthrospira platensis
Photosynthesis
ROS
Singlet oxygen
Spirulina
Strain selection

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Aquatic Science
Plant Science

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