title: Development and bioreactor cultivation of a novel semidifferentiated tissue suspension derived from the marine plant Acrosiphonia coalita.
abstract: A semidifferentiated tissue culture consisting of linear filaments in liquid suspension was established from Acrosiphonia coalita, a cold-water green macroalga known to express pharmacologically active oxylipins deriving from lipoxygenase metabolism of linolenic acid. The tissue was vegatively propagated by blending the filaments down to 1 to 5 mm in length prior to subculture. The filamentous A. coalita tissue suspension was successfully cultivated in an illuminated, 3-L stirred-tank bioreactor at 12 degrees C, 0.46-vvm aeration rate, 250-rpm mixing speed, and incident illumination intensity of 77 microE m(-2)s(-1). The mean specific growth rate over the exponential phase was 0.185 day(-1) and a final cell density of 1083 mg dry cell weight (DCW) L(-1) was achieved within 15 days of cultivation from an initial cell density of 200 mg DCW L(-1). The addition of 3500 ppm CO(2) to the aeration gas provided a maximum CO(2) transfer rate of six times the maximum CO(2) consumption rate and stabilized the pH to 8.0 during the light phase of growth, but did not improve biomass productivity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA.
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Rorrer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polne-Fuller