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Effect of Red and Blue Leds on the Production of Phycocyanin By Journal of Science and Technology in Lighting Vol.41, 2017 J-STAGE Advanced published date: December 4, 2017, doi: 10.2150/jstl.IEIJ160000597 Paper Effect of Red and Blue LEDs on the Production of Phycocyanin by Spirulina Platensis Based on Photosynthetically Active Radiation Feng TIAN*, **, David BUSO*, Tongming WANG***, Manuel LOPES*, Urbain NIANGORAN*, **** and Georges ZISSIS*,† * LAPLACE, UPS, Université de Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France ** State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China *** Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes, (INRA, UMR441-CNRS, UMR2594), Castanet-Tolosan F-31326, France **** Laboratoire Image Instrumentation et Spectroscopie, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouet Boigny de Yamous- soukro, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire Received December 1, 2016, Accepted October 31, 2017 ABSTRACT Phycocyanin (PC) is a kind of valuable pigment extracted from spirulina platensis (S. platensis). Light environment is one of the most important factors on the production of PC. Using light-emitting diode (LED) light sources, the S. platensis was cultured with five different ratios of red and blue photons. Pho- tosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) was precisely controlled by the function relationship between PAR, junction temperature and forward current. The comparative analysis shows that blue light is conducive to improve the mass fraction of PC, but the total production per incubator is lower than the one obtained under red light. KEYWORDS: spirulina platensis, phycocyanin, light emitting diode, PAR 1. Introduction It has been clarified that blue and red light are the PC is a photosynthetic pigment, which falls into C most important radiation for plant photosynthesis5, 6), and R types. The former was found in cyanobacteria, but this mechanism may not apply for microalgae. PC and the latter was found in red algae and cryptophytes. has much higher content than other pigments and it is PC is an accessory pigment of chlorophyll, which ap- indispensable for S. platensis photosynthesis. Neverthe- pears blue, absorbs orange and red light, and transmits less, functions of mixed spectra on the production of PC light energy during the process of photosynthesis. Over are seldom reported. Until now, there are some reports the past decades, PC has been used as natural edible demonstrating the effect of single colored light on bio- pigment, cosmetics, medicine and fluorescent reagent1). mass and pigment production of S. platensis on the pho- Until now, its new functions such as antitumor, anti- toautotrophic cultivation with artificial LEDs including oxidant, anti-allergy and improving the organism im- red, yellow, green or blue colors7–9). munity are being gradually explored2, 3). For example, Wang et al.7) showed that Red LED pro- LED is a kind of solid state light source. As the latest moted the highest specific growth rate while blue LED lighting source, it has been quickly developed in green- showed the least efficiency in the conversion of photon houses due to the advantages of high light efficiency, to biomass. Chainapong et al.10) focused on different long lifetime, narrow spectrum radiation, cool light, concentrations of photosynthetic pigments produced by robustness and so on. S. platensis in photoautrophic and mixotrophic condi- Instead of using photon energy, PAR between tions with different light quality generated by filtered 400–700 nm is often used to characterize photosynthesis sun light. In their study they used white light as well efficiency driven by photons. PAR includes photosyn- as colored light. They showed that white light exhibit thetic photon flux (PPF) and yield photon flux (YPF)4). the maximum biomass concentration in mixotrophic YPF is a more accurate measure of a horticulture light cultures while the content of pigments was reduced. ability to drive photosynthesis of plants. As there is no Kim et al.9) showed that red and green light produce relative quantum efficiency curve for spirulina platensis, significantly higher growth rate while green and blue PPF was preferred to measure the light intensity in this produce the higher photosynthetic pigment content. study. As biomass production and content of pigments † Corresponding Author: Georges Zissis [email protected] 148 The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan Journal of Science and Technology in Lighting Vol.41, 2017 doi: 10.2150/jstl.IEIJ160000597 Figure 1 Experimental setup for incubators with five different proportions of red and blue photons (Incubator size: 30(L)∗15(W)∗20(D) cm). like PC are strongly correlated and dependent on A kind of aquarium made with transparent glass was the culture environment as well as light condition, in used as incubator. Six liters of Zarrouk medium were this paper, we used mixed colors at different ratios to filled for the cultivation. As shown in Figure 1, two LED investigate the conjugated effect on biomass and PC plates were fixed beside the incubator with a distance of production. Moreover, to approach operational condi- 1 cm to the walls of incubator. Twenty-four LEDs were tion of intensive culture in bioreactor, 9L incubators adopted for each incubator, and evenly distributed on were used instead of small volume incubators (typically both sides. The PAR of each incubator was 74.42µmol/ 500mL flask). (m2·s) tested by a spectroradiometer (specbos 1201) in We originally used mixed spectra with five differ- an integrating sphere (diameter: 25 cm). Five different ent proportions of blue and red photons to cultivate S. proportions of red and blue photons are set to B : R=4 : 0 platensis in order to explore the effects of blue and red (only blue Figure 1.a), B : R=3 : 1 (three quarter of blue spectrum on the production of PC. Twenty-four high PAR and one quarter of red PAR, Figure 1.b), B : R=2 : 2 power LEDs were adopted for each incubator. Three- (equal blue and red PAR, Figure 1.b), B : R=1 : 3 (three dimensional relationships between the PAR, forward quarter of red PAR and one quarter of blue PAR, Fig- current (If) and junction temperature (Tj) were obtained ure 1.b) and B : R=0 : 4 (only red Figure 1.c), respectively. to get accurate PAR with the help of spectroradiometer A total of five incubators were used with the preceding (specbos 1201), an integrating sphere and temperature settings. controlled chamber and module. The experiment was repeated three times. The S. platensis produced by the first experiment was con- 2. Materials and methods sidered as the first generation, including five different 2.1 Culture conditions kinds corresponding five incubators. For the second ex- The microorganism used was Spirulina platensis periment, we inoculated from the first generation, and UTEX LB 2340 from Natron Lake, which was grown the third experiment was inoculated from the second photoautotrophically in Zarrouk medium11). The strain generation. The other conditions remained the same. culture was grown in 80 L of glass container at 32.5±1°C with continuous illumination provided by white tubular 2.2 Accurate PAR control method fluorescent lamps (Osram T5 HE ES 13W/840 G5 Lu- According to the characteristics of LED, the forward milux), and agitated by a circulating pump. For inocula- current (If) and junction temperature (Tj) are two key tion, we took certain amount of the strain culture, and parameters to get accurate PAR. Normally, Tj and for- filtered it by 30 µm strainer, then diluted the S. platensis ward voltage (Vf) of LED have a linear relationship. We with Zarrouk to an Optical Density at 600 nm (OD600) used 10 mA pulse current, produced by a sourcemeter of 0.180. (keithley 2602), to measure Vf at different temperatures The experiment was performed in greenhouse with in a temperature controlled chamber. Then the relation- an air conditioner. The temperature of culture medium ship between Tj and Vf was extracted. for S. platensis kept the same as strain culture at Then, LED PAR was measured in function of the 32.5±1°C. Wave maker pumps were used to agitate the junction temperature at different current levels. In culture solution. The flow velocity was 5000L/h. The order to accurately describe PAR for each incuba- pH value increased from the beginning of 8.5 to the end tor, single LED was measured by a spectroradiom- of less than 11 during the culture process. eter (specbos 1201) in an integrating sphere (diameter: Blue and red LEDs were selected with the same size 25 cm) with a small temperature controlled module (3.45∗3.45∗2.00 (H) mm). The peak wavelengths were assembled in the center. The parameters of LEDs mea- 458 nm and 625 nm, and viewing angle 135° and 130° at sured by integrating sphere were more accurate and 50% current value, respectively. Both of the LEDs had believable than a quantum sensor in the experimental a rated current of 350 mA and a maximum current of conditions. The purpose is to quantify the PAR and 1000 mA. provide a reference, which can improve the repeatabil- 149 The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan Journal of Science and Technology in Lighting Vol.41, 2017 doi: 10.2150/jstl.IEIJ160000597 -1 ity of the experiment. The PAR of each LED was 74.42 content of allophycocyanin (in mg/mL ); X3 is the con- 2 -1 µmol/(m ·s). With the same quantity and distribution of tent of phycoerythrobilin (in mg/mL ); X4 is the mass LEDs, each incubator can get the same PAR. The only fraction of PC (g/100 g); A is the absorbance of corre- difference presented in the experiment was the color of sponding wavelengths (620 nm, 652 nm and 562 nm); V is LEDs. The other conditions were maintained the same the constant volume of test samples (mL); m is the dry between different experiments.
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