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. 2014 May 7;9(5):e96807. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096807

Table 5. Productivity levels and starch and lipid contents for axenic C. minutissima cultures grown with and without kanamycin.

Culture conditions Biomass productivity (mg/L/d) Lipid productivity (mg/L/d) Starch productivity (mg/L/d) Final lipid content (%) Final starch content (%)
2 g/L glucose No kanamycin 117.2 (2.7) b 16.3 (1.3) ab 4.22 (1.93) c 13.9 (0.8) a 3.58 (1.57) c
Kanamycin 106.0 (4.8) b 15.3 (2.6) b 2.56 (0.79) c 14.4 (2.2) a 2.40 (0.65) c
10 g/L glucose No kanamycin 172.4 (2.6) a 23.8 (0.9) a 26.95 (3.07) a 13.8 (0.4) a 15.64 (1.77) a
Kanamycin 148.4 (15.9) a 20.3 (4.6) ab 10.59 (0.80) b 13.6 (1.8) a 7.16 (0.30) b

Productivities are five-day averages. Mean values are followed by standard deviations in parenthesis based on three biological replicates. Within a column, values connected by the same letter are not significantly different at the 0.05 level.