Installation of Operational Processes for the Establishment of Microalgal Culture Collection
2019
YALÇIN DUYGU, Dilek | GAZİ FACULTY OF EDUCATION | AÇIKGÖZ ERKAYA, İlkay | AHI EVRAN UNIVERSITY | ÖZER, Tülay | KAMAN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Microalgae are the most common photosynthetic organisms which are available in all aquaticsystems. Microalgae cultures are used in awide variety of industries due to their valuable chemical compounds. Today microalgae are widely usedin scientific research, as learning resources for students and as raw materialsfor industry. The science world and the industryneed cultures which are pure and identified with all of their characteristicsin order to utilise in those areas. Therefore, the microalgae culturecollections isolating and preserving microalgae cultures are neededworldwide. Considering these importantfunctions of cultural collections, efforts to create the Algal CultureCollection started at Ahi Evran University (AEU-CCA). Ourculture collection consists of totally 19 microalgae species belonging to thephylums of Cyanobacteria,Chlorophyta, Charophyta and and Bacillariophyta. Collecting microalgae from freshwater bodies, their identification, isolation and arrangement of cultureconditions have begun to be carried out and it is a still-continuing process. While the microalgae are preservedin broth medium by sub-culturing, their long-term preservation studies throughcryopreservation have begun. The present study mainly aims toput isolated microalgae species at the disposal of scientific communities, toconduct biotechnological studies and to arrange the microalgae culturecollection in order to maintain biological diversity.
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