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Outdoor cultivation of Ulva lactuca in a recently developed ring-shaped photobioreactor: effects of elevated CO2 concentration on growth and photosynthetic performance

  • Stefan Sebök

    Stefan Sebök, Mag. Sc., studied biology, computer science and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany). From 2006 to 2018 he worked as a research associate and biotechnologist at different private research facilities as well as at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Weimar, Germany) and at Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (Potsdam, Germany). In 2014 he additionally started his doctorate at the University of Hamburg (Chair of Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology) focusing on the development of on-land cultivation of marine macroalgae as a technological enhancement of agricultural biogas plants.

     EMAIL logo     , Werner B. Herppich

    Werner B. Herppich studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bayreuth (UoB), Germany. From 1984 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at UoB and at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He received his doctoral degree in 1989, completing his thesis on the effects on environmental parameters (light, leaf temperature, air humidity, soil water availability and leaf water status) on CAM mode in Plectranthus marrubioides Benth. Since 1997 he works at the Leibniz Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e. V., Potsdam, Germany. His research focuses on pre- and postharvest effects on physiological properties (photosynthesis, respiration, water relations, biophysics) and quality of fruits, vegetables and ornamentals.

         und Dieter Hanelt

    Dieter Hanelt studied biology until 1987 at the University of Marburg, received his doctor’s degree in 1990 in the field of photobiology in Marburg and habilitated in 1998 at the University of Bremen. From 1994 until 2003 he was a scientific co-worker at the Alfred Wegner Institute for Marine and Polar Research in Bremerhaven and at the Biological Institute on Helgoland, where he headed the Marine Botany Department and the guest research. In 2003 he became Professor for Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology at the University of Hamburg. Since 2017 he is president of the German Society for Marine Research.
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 4. Dezember 2018
Botanica Marina
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Abstract

Land-based cultivation of marine macroalgae may open up the possibility to produce high quality algal biomass as required in various application areas all year round. In this context, the potential of a recently developed ring-shaped cultivation system with algae moving in a circular way, simulating the movement pattern in a standard tank cultivation vessel was evaluated using the green alga Ulva lactuca. Plants were cultivated under outdoor conditions at ambient (37 μmol CO2 kg−1 seawater) and increased CO2 concentration (152 μmol CO2 kg−1 seawater). Biomass growth and photosynthetic performance of algae were analyzed over a test period of 7 d. Elevated CO2 concentration significantly stimulated algal growth and also helped to compensate the effects of environmental stress conditions. This was indicated by the predominant stability of photosynthetic competence and represented by maximum photosynthetic electron transport rates, efficiency of light-harvesting and photon fluence rates (PFR) saturating photosynthetic electron transport at low PFR. At high PFR, no difference in photosynthetic competence was detected between algae cultivated at the high CO2-concentration and those grown at ambient CO2. Under elevated CO2 concentrations, photochemical energy dissipation decreased more distinctly at low PFR. This may reflect a declining energy demand necessary to maintain photosynthetic capacity. Under elevated CO2, the apparent changes in the quantum yields of regulated and unregulated non-photochemical energy dissipation of PS II at high PFR possibly reflected the enhanced capacity of photoprotection under the prevailing environmental conditions.

Keywords: biomass production; closed cultivation; fluorescence quenching; land-based culture; seaweed

About the authors

Stefan Sebök

Stefan Sebök, Mag. Sc., studied biology, computer science and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany). From 2006 to 2018 he worked as a research associate and biotechnologist at different private research facilities as well as at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Weimar, Germany) and at Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (Potsdam, Germany). In 2014 he additionally started his doctorate at the University of Hamburg (Chair of Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology) focusing on the development of on-land cultivation of marine macroalgae as a technological enhancement of agricultural biogas plants.

Werner B. Herppich

Werner B. Herppich studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bayreuth (UoB), Germany. From 1984 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at UoB and at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He received his doctoral degree in 1989, completing his thesis on the effects on environmental parameters (light, leaf temperature, air humidity, soil water availability and leaf water status) on CAM mode in Plectranthus marrubioides Benth. Since 1997 he works at the Leibniz Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e. V., Potsdam, Germany. His research focuses on pre- and postharvest effects on physiological properties (photosynthesis, respiration, water relations, biophysics) and quality of fruits, vegetables and ornamentals.

Dieter Hanelt

Dieter Hanelt studied biology until 1987 at the University of Marburg, received his doctor’s degree in 1990 in the field of photobiology in Marburg and habilitated in 1998 at the University of Bremen. From 1994 until 2003 he was a scientific co-worker at the Alfred Wegner Institute for Marine and Polar Research in Bremerhaven and at the Biological Institute on Helgoland, where he headed the Marine Botany Department and the guest research. In 2003 he became Professor for Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology at the University of Hamburg. Since 2017 he is president of the German Society for Marine Research.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank A. Giebel, Ch. Ammon und S. Herppich for valuable comments to improve the statistical design and analysis of the experimental data and M. Fischer for providing a CAD drawing of the ring-shaped reactor.

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Received: 2018-02-23
Accepted: 2018-10-12
Published Online: 2018-12-04
Published in Print: 2019-04-24

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https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2018-0016
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
biomass production; closed cultivation; fluorescence quenching; land-based culture; seaweed

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. In this issue
  3. Physiology and ecology
  4. Unexpected reproductive traits of Grateloupia turuturu revealed by its resistance to bleach-based biosecurity protocols
  5. Effects of salinity and temperature on the performance of Cymodocea nodosa and Ruppia cirrhosa: a medium-term laboratory study
  6. Fruits and flowers of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea in the Caribbean Sea
  7. Taxonomy/phylogeny and biogeography
  8. First report, along with nomenclature adjustments, of Ulva ohnoi, U. tepida and U. torta (Ulvaceae, Ulvales, Chlorophyta) from northwestern Mexico
  9. Morphology, molecular phylogeny and toxinology of Coolia and Prorocentrum strains isolated from the tropical South Western Atlantic Ocean
  10. Phylogenetic relationships of Pakistan Gelidium (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta) species with recognition of Gelidium pakistanicum stat. nov.
  11. Proposals to recognize Petalonia tenella comb. nov. and to resurrect Hapterophycus canaliculatus (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae)
  12. First record of Caulerpa prolifera in the Azores (NE Atlantic)
  13. First record of the red alga Tiffaniella gorgonea: an introduced species in the Mediterranean Sea
  14. Chemistry and applications
  15. Pharmacological effects of Fucus spiralis extracts and phycochemicals: a comprehensive review
  16. Outdoor cultivation of Ulva lactuca in a recently developed ring-shaped photobioreactor: effects of elevated CO2 concentration on growth and photosynthetic performance
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