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Change in light quality due to a blue-green pigment, marennine, released in oyster-ponds: effect on growth and photosynthesis in two diatoms, Haslea ostrearia and Skeletonema costatum

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Two prominent diatoms encountered in oyster-ponds,Haslea ostrearia and Skeletonema costatum,were grown in batch and in a semi-continuous modeunder light of different spectral quality, white, blueor blue-green. The last corresponded to white lightmodified by a water-soluble pigment, marennine,produced by H. ostrearia. After acclimation tothe different light treatments, the growth rates ofboth species showed little variation with respect tolight quality. The parameters for photosynthesisvs irradiance curves were very similar in H. ostrearia grown under the three light conditions,whereas S. costatum the maximum photosyntheticcapacity (on a chlorophyll a basis) wassignificantly reduced under blue-green light. Fluorescence analyses confirmed the data forphotosynthesis, with the operational fluorescenceyield decreasing faster with increasing irradiance inS. costatum grown under blue-green light. InH. ostrearia, fluorescence yields undersaturating irradiance were closely similar in thethree light conditions. The results are discussed inrelation with the prominent development of H.ostrearia that can outcompete other diatoms inoyster-ponds.

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Tremblin, G., Cannuel, R., Mouget, JL. et al. Change in light quality due to a blue-green pigment, marennine, released in oyster-ponds: effect on growth and photosynthesis in two diatoms, Haslea ostrearia and Skeletonema costatum . Journal of Applied Phycology 12, 557–566 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026502713075

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