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MethodsX. 2020 Aug 19;7:101037. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.101037. eCollection 2020.

A method to assess algicidal activity of microalgal extracts coupling microalgae produced in stirred closed photobioreactor operating in continuous with pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry.

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Eva Menguy, Vincent Dumontet, Noémie Coulombier, Vincent Meriot, Loïc Le Déan, Vanille Barthelemy, Thierry Jauffrais

Affiliations

  1. Ifremer, IRD, Univ Nouvelle-Calédonie, Univ La Réunion, CNRS, UMR 9220 ENTROPIE, 101 Promenade Roger Laroque, 98897 Noumea, New Caledonia.
  2. Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, UPR 2301, ICSN, 1 Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
  3. ADECAL Technopole, 1 bis rue Berthelot, 98846 Noumea, New Caledonia.

PMID: 32923376 PMCID: PMC7475119 DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.101037

Abstract

We describe in the present study a quick and reliable method based on chlorophyll a fluorescence to assess putative algicidal effect of different microalgal extracts. We couple microalgal production under chemostat cultivation mode to continuously produce a given microalgae species (e.g.

© 2020 The Authors.

Keywords: Anti algal; Bioassay; Cytoxicity; Fv/Fm; Microalgae; NPQ; Non photochemical quenching; Phytochemistry; Quantum efficiency; electron transport rate

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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