Improvement of growth stability of photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus |
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Authors: | Yegani Reza Yoshimura Satoshi Moriya Kazunori Katsuda Tomohisa Katoh Shigeo |
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Affiliation: | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada-ku, Japan. |
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Abstract: | Using a semicontinuous culture method, in which operational parameters such as cell concentration and light intensity distribution were maintained almost constant, instability of the specific growth rate of Rhodobacter capsulatus B-100, a purple bacterium, was observed to be similar to that of R. capsulatus ST-410 when cultivated under high ratios of light intensity on the illuminated side to that of the transmitted light. Such instability was not observed in the cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris, a eukaryotic green alga, even at higher cell concentrations. Under the same conditions, the increase in only the ferrous concentration from 43 microM, the concentration in the original RCV medium, to 172 microM sustained a stable growth, whereas Fe(2+) was slightly consumed during the cultivation. Supplemental illumination with a fluorescent lamp on the transmitted side of a flat plate photobioreactor sustained a moderate level of stable growth, while a halogen lamp slightly affected the growth stability. Our results showed that an increase in Fe(2+) concentration or supplemental illumination improves the growth stability of R. capsulatus. |
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Keywords: | Rhodobacter capsulatus growth stability semicontinuous culture light intensity distribution iron concentration |
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