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Fungal-assisted microalgae for promoting growth

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Biological Sciences (Bioengineering, Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology and natural products, Neuroscience)

Abstract

Microalgae culturing with fungal hyphae has attracted extensive consideration. This study examined the beneficial interaction between microalgae and fungi under artificial continuous illumination with fluorescent lamps set to 60 μEm−1 s−1 intensity at room temperature. The research will evaluate the algae growth dynamics at different co-cultivation times with different algal fungal loads. Highlight the species-specific dependence in terms of chlorophyll a content and biomass production. The studied microalgae encompass various characteristics, including freshwater and marine origins, motile, and non-motile properties namely C.vulgaris, N.oculata, and T.chuii and filamentous fungi A.fumigatus, R.arrhizus, and M.alpina. The growth of the symbiotic system within 72 hrs. indicated that the maximum biomass of 619.2 ± 0.97 mg/L was achieved between C.vulgaris and A.fumigatus in a ratio of 1:1. Consortia of T.chuii and A.fumigatus in a ratio of 2:1 recorded the highest chlorophyll a content of 8.16 ± 0.11 mg/L. Observing the structures of co-cultivated organisms under the light microscope validated that the microalgae cells and fungal mycelia were mutually tangled together to form the network morphology.

DOI

10.21608/ajst.2024.299047.1037

Keywords

microalgae, fungi, Co-culture, interaction, Biomass production

Authors

First Name

Dina

Last Name

Osman

MiddleName

Maged

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, 21511, Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

sci.dinamaged.2017@alexu.edu.eg

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0009-0000-1208-0720

First Name

Nagwa

Last Name

Mohammady

MiddleName

Gamal El-din

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, 21511, Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

nagwa_phyco@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Fakhry

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, 21511, Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

emanfakhry@outlook.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Youssef

MiddleName

Amin

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, 21511, Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

aminghada66@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

Amani

Last Name

Waheed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Email

amani_waheed@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

Volume

2

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

51851

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-06-25

Publish Date

2024-12-01

Page Start

155

Page End

166

Print ISSN

2974-3265

Online ISSN

2974-3273

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Research article

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2,782

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Publication Title

Alexandria Journal of Science and Technology

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https://ajst.journals.ekb.eg/

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Fungal-assisted microalgae for promoting growth

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Created At

29 Dec 2024