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Plant Physiology 51:337-344 (1973)
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Physiology and Ultrastructure of an Oxygen-resistant Chlorella Mutant under Heterotrophic Conditions 1

Warren M. Pulich2 and C. H. Ward

a Departments of Biology and Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001

The oxygen-resistant strain of Chlorella sorokiniana (Shihira and Krauss), distinguished by its ability to grow autotrophically under high partial pressures of oxygen, was studied and partially characterized in heterotrophic culture. Ultrastructural analysis of glucose-grown oxygen-resistant strain and wild type cells reveals that osmiophilic deposits (possibly polyphosphate) are present only in wild type, while oxygen-resistant strain apparently contains increased amounts of starch and endoplasmic reticulum. Of major physiological significance are the observations that: (a) oxygen-resistant strain requires 6 to 8 days to completely adapt to dark, heterotrophic conditions, whereas wild type acclimates in 1 day; (b) oxygen-resistant strain is resistant to high oxygen tension only when grown on glucose, but not on acetate; and (c) the respiratory rate, but not the photosynthetic rate, of heterotrophic oxygen-resistant strain is abnormal compared to wild type.

2 Present address: The University of Texas, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas 78373.

1 Portion of the Ph.D. thesis in Biology submitted by Warren Pulich to Rice University, 1971. Supported by contracts F41609-68-C-0024, F41609-69-C-0010, and F41609-70-C-0018 from the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine to C. H. Ward and Environmental Protection Agency Training Grant 5P3-WP-194-05. W.P. received a Standard Oil of Indiana Fellowship in 1970.






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