PHOSPHATE AND SILICATE GROWTH AND UPTAKE KINETICS OF THE DIATOMS <i>ASTERIONELLA FORMOSA</i> AND <i>CYCLOTELLA MENEGHINIANA</i> IN BATCH AND SEMICONTINUOUS CULTURE<sup>1</sup>

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<jats:title>SUMMARY</jats:title><jats:p>Information on the nutrient kinetics of <jats:italic>Asterionella formosa</jats:italic> Hass. and <jats:italic>Cyclotella meneghiniana</jats:italic> Kutz. under either phosphate or silicate limitation was obtained for use in a Monod model and in a variable internal stores model of growth. Short‐term batch culture growth experiments were fit to the Monod model and long‐term semicontinuous culture experiments and short‐term uptake experiments were fit to the variable internal stores model. Mathematical analysis indicates that the parameters of the 2 models may be expressed in terms of each other at steady state.</jats:p><jats:p>The qualitative results of both batch and steady state culture methods agree. For limiting phosphate experiments. <jats:italic>A. formosa</jats:italic> is better able to grow at low PO<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>‐P concentrations than <jats:italic>C. meneghiniana</jats:italic>, as shown by its lower <jats:italic>K</jats:italic> for PO<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>‐P limited growth. The <jats:italic>k<jats:sub>Q</jats:sub></jats:italic> of <jats:italic>A. formosa</jats:italic> compared to <jats:italic>C. meneghiniana</jats:italic> found in long‐term semicontinuous culture indicates that <jats:italic>A. formosa</jats:italic> is almost an order of magnitude more efficient at using internal phosphate for growth. The qualitative results under silicate‐limited growth of <jats:italic>C. meneghiniana</jats:italic> is less than that of <jats:italic>A. formosa.</jats:italic> The k<jats:sub>Q</jats:sub> from semicontinuous culture experiments indicates that <jats:italic>C. meneghiniana</jats:italic> is the more efficient at using internal silicate for growth. Nutrient uptake experiments showed more variability from a Michaelis‐Menten relationship than short‐term growth experiments. There were no significant differences between the 2 species in half saturation constants for either phosphate or silicate uptake. We observed a marked dependence of the coefficient of luxury consumption (<jats:italic>R)</jats:italic> of phosphate on the steady state growth rate. <jats:italic>A. formosa</jats:italic> has a higher <jats:italic>R</jats:italic> than <jats:italic>C. meneghiniana</jats:italic>.</jats:p>

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