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Effects of acute and chronic UV-B exposure on a green alga: a continuous culture study using a computer-controlled dynamic light regime

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UV-B and Biosphere

Part of the book series: Advances in vegetation science ((AIVS,volume 17))

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The green alga Selenastrum capricornutum was grown in a specially developed continuous culture system to study long-term effects of chronic UV-B exposure. The new system improves upon previous laboratory culture approaches. It is demonstrated that short-term experiments underestimate UV-B effects. It is also shown that photoinhibition cannot explain the effects under chronic exposure. Under both nutrient-replete and phosphorus-limiting conditions a UV-B mediated delay in cell division rate and an increase in the cellular content of proteins, carbohydrates and chlorophyll a was measured. Transition experiments showed that complete acclimatisation to UV-B took several cell cycles. DNA damage appears to be the major cause of the observed long-term UV-B effects.

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  1. National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

    A. Veen & M. Reuvers

  2. Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Limnology, Rijksstraatweg 6, 3631 AC, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands

    A. Veen

  3. IHE, 2601 DA, Delft, The Netherlands

    P. Ronçak

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  2. State University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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  3. Research Institute of Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO), Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  4. European Commission — DGXII-E-1, Science & Technology for Environm. Protection, Brussels, Belgium

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Veen, A., Reuvers, M., Ronçak, P. (1997). Effects of acute and chronic UV-B exposure on a green alga: a continuous culture study using a computer-controlled dynamic light regime. In: Rozema, J., Gieskes, W.W.C., Van De Geijn, S.C., Nolan, C., De Boois, H. (eds) UV-B and Biosphere. Advances in vegetation science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5718-6_3

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