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Effect of light and development of photosynthetic cells: Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6840126
Green algae exposed to an anaerobic environment ''adapt'' to a hydrogen metabolism and can photooxidize H/sub 2/O to H/sub 2/ and O/sub 2/ as well as carbon compounds to H/sub 2/ and CO/sub 2/. The products from fermentation of chloroplastic starch included acetate, formate, ethanol, CO/sub 2/, H/sub 2/, glycerol, and lactate. Light caused an increase in H/sub 2/ and CO/sub 2/ and decreases in acetate and ethanol. Aerobically isolated algal chloroplasts adapted to a hydrogen metabolism where H/sub 2/ was evolved. The oxyhydrogen reaction was not detected in the chloroplasts. Acetate is photoassimilated anaerobically by Chlamydomonas cells to lipid, carbohydrate, CO/sub 2/, and H/sub 2/ with a stoichiometry indicating a light-dependent anaerobic glyoxylate cycle as the primary assimilatory pathway.
Research Organization:
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ER03231
OSTI ID:
6840126
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/03231-10; ON: DE87005183
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English