Table II. Minimum requirements of precursors and energy equivalents to produce 1 g of dry weight of biomass of the representative cellular scenarios.
The italic entries denote the respective limiting precursor.
| Cellular Scenario | Minimal Precursor Consumption |
Precursor Ratio |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photon | CO2 | NO3− | Pi | SO42− | ATP | Photon:CO2 | Photon:NO3− | CO2:NO3− | |
| mmol d−1 | |||||||||
| Optimal growth | 196.862 | 20.621 | 2.595 | 0.013 | 0.065 | 186.316 | 9.547 | 75.875 | 7.948 |
| Carbon limitation | 182.639 | 19.192 | 2.350 | 0.013 | 0.058 | 172.854 | 9.517 | 77.714 | 8.166 |
| Nitrogen limitation | 259.648 | 26.737 | 4.104 | 0.014 | 0.099 | 245.738 | 9.711 | 63.260 | 6.514 |