Yang Sun , Yun Li , Jing Zhang , Jiaji Zhang , Wenjie Yan , Xu Gao
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Abstract
Phytohormones play a crucial role in the growth and production of commercial microalgae, and are closely associated with their life stages. In the study, targeted metabolomics analysis was performed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to investigate the phytohormone profiles of four life stages (zoospores, ZP; palmella, PL; palmella cell in transition to aplanospore, PAL; aplanospore, AL) of Haematococcus pluvialis. A total of 18 phytohormones were identified and quantified, including 4 auxins, 8 cytokinins (CKs), 2 jasmonates, 2 growth inhibitors, 1 abscisic acid (ABA), and 1 salicylic acid (SA). Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) was the major auxin, with the highest content observed at the PL stage when biomass accumulation reaches its highest peak. Cis-zeatin (cZ) and cis-zeatin riboside (cZR) were the two predominant CKs, which increased significantly at the AL stage. Similarly, abscisic acid (ABA) content was the highest at the AL stage, which was associated with the accumulation of astaxanthin. The results provide important basic information for the development of plant growth regulators in the production of H. pluvialis.
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Algal Research is an international phycology journal covering all areas of emerging technologies in algae biology, biomass production, cultivation, harvesting, extraction, bioproducts, biorefinery, engineering, and econometrics. Algae is defined to include cyanobacteria, microalgae, and protists and symbionts of interest in biotechnology. The journal publishes original research and reviews for the following scope: algal biology, including but not exclusive to: phylogeny, biodiversity, molecular traits, metabolic regulation, and genetic engineering, algal cultivation, e.g. phototrophic systems, heterotrophic systems, and mixotrophic systems, algal harvesting and extraction systems, biotechnology to convert algal biomass and components into biofuels and bioproducts, e.g., nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, animal feed, plastics, etc. algal products and their economic assessment