
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Humphrey, GF 
A1  - Subba Rao, DV 
T1  - Photosynthetic rate of the marine diatom <I>Cylindrotheca closterium</I>
JF  - Marine and Freshwater Research
JO  - Mar. Freshwater Res.
Y1  - 1967
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SP  - 123
EP  - 128
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9670123 
N2  - Photosynthesis in Cylindrotheca closterium was greatest in 1-day-old cells (2-4 µ O2 per 106 cells per hour), declining to about 50% of this at 3 days and to about 10 % at 14 days. Due mainly to a decrease in the intensity of photosynthesis the ratio of photosynthesis to respiration fell from 6-8 at 1 day to 34 at 3 days, and to 0.6-1.6 at 14 days. The decline in photosynthesis started before phosphate or nitrate in the culture medium was exhausted, but was accompanied by a pH change from 7.4 before inoculation to 8.4 at 1 day and 9.2 at 3 days and thereafter. White light of 1000-1500f.c. (6.4-9.6 mW/cm2) saturated photosynthesis, the compensation point varying from 50 to 100 f.c. (0.3-0.6 mW/cm2). In blue light similar in spectral composition to that found at 10m below the surface of the ocean, the compensation point was 0.5-0.6 mW/cm2. 
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