Autor: Hee-Mock Oh, Hee Sik Kim, Jong Woon Jeon, Chi-Yong Ahn, Seung Hyun Joung, Byung Dae Yoon
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Biotechnology Letters. 25:1137-1142
ISSN: 0141-5492
DOI: 10.1023/a:1024508927361
Popis: Of several types of chemical surfactants and biosurfactants, only the culture broth of Bacillus subtilis C1 containing surfactin at 10 mg l−1 completely inhibited the growth of Microcystis aeruginosa, a bloom-forming cyanobacterium in highly eutrophic lakes. The broth with 10 mg surfactin l−1 also removed 85% of the maximally grown M. aeruginosa (chlorophyll-a concentration, 1000 μg l−1) within 2 d, and the removal efficiency was enhanced by Ca2+ over 1 mM. The growth of Anabaena affinis, another bloom-forming cyanobacterium, was also inhibited about 70% with surfactin at 10 mg l−1 broth. However, the effect of the broth was delayed over 3 d in the green algae, Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus sp., and was negligible in a diatom, Navicula sp., indicating the potential for the selective control of cyanobacterial blooms.
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