Toward facilitating microalgae cope with effluent from anaerobic digestion of kitchen waste: the art of agricultural phytohormones

Table 1 Experimental set-up, maximum biomass concentration, and average biomass productivities of Chlorella SDEC-11 and Scenedesmus SDEC-13

Run^e	Phytohormones dose (mg L⁻¹)				Maximum biomass concentration (g L⁻¹)		Verhulst model
	Seed preparation		Batch cultivation		Maximum biomass concentration (g L⁻¹)		X _max (g L⁻¹)		µ (d⁻¹)
	SDEC-11	SDEC-13	SDEC-11	SDEC-13	SDEC-11	SDEC-13*	SDEC-11	SDEC-13	SDEC-11	SDEC-13
BG11	–	–	–	–	0.61 ± 0.01^a	0.47 ± 0.04^a	0.70 ± 0.05	0.70 ± 0.17	0.31 ± 0.04	0.17 ± 0.02
ADE-KW	–	–	–	–	0.30 ± 0.03^b	0.22 ± 0.01^b	0.25 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.06	0.18 ± 0.08
S⁺ADE-KW	10	50	–	–	0.31 ± 0.01^bc	0.40 ± 0.01^c	0.32 ± 0.04	0.38 ± 0.05	0.16 ± 0.06	0.27 ± 0.10
B⁺ADE-KW	–	–	10	50	0.33 ± 0.01^c	0.33 ± 0.01^d	0.34 ± 0.03	0.35 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.05	0.15 ± 0.04

^eRun names indicate the phase at which hormones were added and the culture medium, e.g., B⁺ADE-KW indicates that phytohormones were added to algae cultured with ADE-KW at the batch cultivation phase. – Phytohormone not added. Data are the means of three independent experiments ± SD
* Data in the same column followed by different letters are significantly different by Duncan’s test at p < 0.05

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