Table 2.

Mean fatty acid composition % total ± S.D. (% TFA) of H. pluvialis cultivated in various autotrophic and mixotrophic media.

Fatty Acid	3N-BBM+V	3N-BBM+V + 10 mM SA	FM:FB	EG:JM	BG-11
14:0	0.35 ± 0.01	0.33 ± 0.00	0.36 ± 0.01	0.54 ± 0.15	0.43 ± 0.04
16:0	22.12 ± 0.08	21.35 ± 0.26	21.65 ± 0.08	22.57 ± 0.62	21.98 ± 0.30
16:3(n-3)	2.09 ± 0.08	2.16 ± 0.12	2.14 ± 0.05	1.86 ± 0.05	2.03 ± 0.08
16:4(n-3)	3.53 ± 0.03	4.08 ± 0.15	4.34 ± 0.41	5.37 ± 0.46	4.09 ± 0.21
18:1(n-7)	3.72 ± 0.03	3.76 ± 0.16	4.08 ± 0.27	4.76 ± 0.45	4.17 ± 0.14
18:1(n-9)	20.31 ± 0.30	18.37 ± 1.09	17.30 ± 1.42	12.31 ± 0.79	19.47 ± 0.99
18:2(n-6)	28.49 ± 0.21	28.26 ± 1.23	27.38 ± 0.66	23.63 ± 0.54	25.91 ± 0.32
18:3(n-3)	10.98 ± 0.05	12.35 ± 0.44	13.05 ± 0.90	15.45 ± 1.51	11.96 ± 0.37
18:4(n-3)	1.61 ± 0.03	1.95 ± 0.08	2.14 ± 0.26	2.74 ± 0.27	1.75 ± 0.06
Other SFA	1.39 ± 0.03	1.41 ± 0.05	1.32 ± 0.04	2.74 ± 1.57	1.77 ± 0.31
Other UFA	3.53 ± 0.07	3.97 ± 0.10	3.68 ± 0.34	4.55 ± 0.26	3.73 ± 0.07
Unknown FA	1.67 ± 0.04	1.84 ± 0.07	2.35 ± 0.12	3.27 ± 0.54	2.45 ± 0.21

Cultures incubated for 10 days in the green stage followed by subsequent red stage induction (20 °C, continuous light at 240 µmol photons m⁻²·s⁻¹) for 12 days.