Lawrence Vitug

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Is Spirulina species growing on BG-11 medium ?

I have tried it but doesnt work, im trying zarrouk medium and it seems working well. Im trying the medium by Andersen (Spirulina Medium (Aiba and Ogawa) Hope it works, I got the Spirulina from UTEX.

04 April 2017 3,836 8 View

Can you use growth kinetics model on unialgal cultures or only on axenic culture ? (For microalgae)

Based of on what I know unialgal culture contains one specific organisms of microalgae which has a bacteria, an axenic culture contains only your microalgae with any other clonal population. So...

22 January 2017 5,122 4 View

Does Botryococcus exhibit polymorphism ?

I have isolated Botryococcus in a river, when I analysed it through LM it has colonies and mucilage threads connecting. But when I tried culturing it became unicellular but there are some visible...

04 July 2016 2,730 3 View

Can anyone suggest a procedure for the SEM of Botryococus?

I have already isolated Botryococcus species and optimized the culture conditions, I need to identify it base on SEM and LM microscopy and later on phylogenetic analysis, Your help will be greatly...

03 July 2016 1,129 1 View

Can we determine the growth rate from chlorophyll a that is extracted from a microalgae ?

Can we determined the growth rate of certain microalage using the extracted chlorophyll a. I have read an article on this but the method is not clear ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

19 April 2016 8,039 4 View

What are the steps in measuring algal growth curve using spectrophotometer ?

Can an initial growth of algae be use as a basis for calibrating the growth curve.

18 February 2016 3,202 2 View

Isolation and purification of microalgae from river ?

Im currently isolating a green algae (Chlorella and Botrycoccus) and Diatoms (Nitzschia, Fragillaria), I have already obtained unialgal isolates through microcapillary and streaking but my problem...

20 December 2015 3,612 2 View