Abstract
A bioenergetic model, developed by M. Thellier, was applied to the 32P-phosphate uptake data obtained with blue green algae and allowed the determination of a threshold concentration for the absorption of phosphate.
Data obtained during an algal bloom of Oscillatoria rubescens showed that algal growth ceased when the phosphate concentration in the lake dropped below this threshold value. The resulting starvation led to an increase in the permeability of the membrane for phosphate.
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Falkner, G., Strasser, P. & Graffius, D. Phosphate uptake by blue green algae in vitro and in a lake during an algal bloom: Useful application of a force-flow relationship. Hydrobiologia 108, 265–271 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00006335
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