This study was to determine the effects of several selected environmental factors (temperature, salinity, light intensity, and acetate) on the nitrogen starvation induced lipid accumulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC 400 by the Nile Red staining of lipid in the cells. Nitrogen starvation induced lipid accumulation, the extent of lipid accumulation increased as nitrogen concentrations in the medium decreased. For the 9.4 mM NH4Cl of HS medium as 100% N, the absence of NH4Cl from the medium will show the maximum induction in the lipid accumulation. This was also observed in the treatment of algal cells in mid-log phase by the absence of NH4Cl in the medium. A decrease in temperature down to 15oC depressed the nitrogen starvation induction in lipid accumulation for the algal cells from the mid-log phase, while the elevation in the light intensity up to 300 £gmol photons • m-2 • s-1 also showed an inhibitory effect. However, the transfer to darkness for the nitrogen starvation also inhibited the lipid increase. The addition of 100 mM NaCl enhanced the nitrogen starvation induced lipid accumulation but the NaCl level up to 200 mM inhibited the increment. The nitrogen starvation induction of lipid increase was partly inhibited due to the absence of acetate, whereas the increase in acetate concentrations in the medium did not have effect on lipid accumulation as compared to normal acetate addition in the medium. Overall, the results of the present study show that light and acetate are essential factors for the maximum lipid accumulation in C. reinhardtii by nitrogen starvation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0901110-015253 |
| Date | 01 September 2010 |
| Creators | Chu, Yu-ying |
| Contributors | Tse-Min Lee, Yi-Ting Hsu, Lu-Te Chuang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0901110-015253 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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