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INVESTIGATIONS of growth, multiplication and metabolism of photosynthetic micro-organisms are mostly conducted in batch culture, where many changing parameters produce physiological heterogeneity in the cultures. The disadvantages can be avoided with continuous culture systems, where all requirements, except a predetermined limiting constituent, are available in abundance. Changes in the rate of dilution of the medium which cause continuous changes in the rate of now of the limiting constituent will therefore determine the physiological properties of the cultures. Thus different steady state levels can be obtained in a chemostat or turbidistat in which the dilution rate of the medium can be changed.
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PROKOP, A., ŘIČICA, J., MÁLEK, I. et al. Growth and Physiological Characteristics of a High Temperature Strain of Chlorella pyrenoidosa in Continuous Culture. Nature 214, 1234–1235 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141234a0
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