A new cultivation method for microbial oil production: cell pelletization and lipid accumulation by Mucor circinelloides

Table 1 Effect of initial pH on growth and lipid content of Mucor circinelloides^a

	Initial pH
Parameter	3.0	4.0	5.0	6.0	7.0	8.0	9.0	10.0
Mean biomass concentration, g/L (± SD)	1.2466 ± 0.058	1.3137 ± 0.043	1.3508 ± 0.022	1.3751 ± 0.044	1.3675 ± 0.036	1.3033 ± 0.021	1.2400 ± 0.200	0.7953 ± 0.345
Mean lipid content, % (± SD)	30.87 ± 15.72	16.78 ± 9.83	17.71 ± 1.29	14.46 ± 4.42	12.93 ± 5.03	10.97 ± 2.60	14.28 ± 9.47	12.38 ± 7.24
Pellet formation	○	×	×	×	×	×	×	×

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