Acclimation Response of Green Microalgae Chlorella Sorokiniana to 2,3',4,4',6-Pentachlorobiphenyl.

The effect of the toxicant 2,3',4,4',6-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB-119) on the growth, chlorophyll content, and PSII activity of C. sorokiniana cells was investigated. A strong negative effect of the toxicant was observed at PCB concentration of 0.

Molecular, Brownian, kinetic and stochastic models of the processes in photosynthetic membrane of green plants and microalgae.

The paper presents the results of recent work at the Department of Biophysics of the Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University on the kinetic and multiparticle modeling of processes in the photosynthetic membrane. The detailed kinetic models and the rule-based kinetic Monte Carlo models allow to reproduce the fluorescence induction curves and redox transformations of the photoactive pigment P700 in the time range from 100 ns to dozens of seconds and make it possible to reveal the role of individual carriers in their formation for different types of photosynthetic organisms under different illumination regimes, in the presence of inhibitors, under stress conditions. The fitting of the model curves to the experimental data quantifies the reaction rate constants that cannot be directly measured experimentally, including the non-radiative thermal relaxation reactions.

Chlorophyll fluorescence induction and relaxation system for the continuous monitoring of photosynthetic capacity in photobioreactors.

The development of high-performance photobioreactors equipped with automatic systems for non-invasive real-time monitoring of cultivation conditions and photosynthetic parameters is a challenge in algae biotechnology. Therefore, we developed a chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence measuring system for the online recording of the light-induced fluorescence rise and the dark relaxation of the flash-induced fluorescence yield (Qa - re-oxidation kinetics) in photobioreactors. This system provides automatic measurements in a broad range of Chl concentrations at high frequency of gas-tight sampling, and advanced data analysis.