Co-cultivation | Fold increase in biomass productivity, growth rate, biomass, or cell size | Media | References |
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Chlorella vulgaris, and Scenedesmus with growth promoting bacteria | Increment of specific growth rate of 1.13-fold in C. reinhardtii, 1.08-fold in C. vulgaris and 1.10-fold in Scenedesmus sp. | BG11 and TAP medium at 30 °C for 12 days with a light intensity of 50 μE m−2 s−1 | [58] |
Chlorella vulgaris with Rhizobium and Flavobacterium | 1.92–2.55-fold increment in cell mass. 1.25-fold increment in lipid content | BG-11 (constant stirring at 100 rpm, 25 °C, light intensity of 100 μmol m−2 s−1) | [59] |
Chlorella vulgaris with beneficial bacteria Duganella sp. JPPB B33 (GU368376) and Pseudomonas putida strain MM1 (AY623928) with some other uncultured bacteria | Both increment and decrement of biomass productivity due to the influence of uncultured bacteria | Wastewater medium with varying bacterial treatments | [60] |
Ankistrodesmus and Rhizobium | 1.29-fold increment in biomass concentration in bubble photobioreactor. 1.19-fold increment in airlift photobioreactor (dry weight) | AEX medium; in air bubble photobioreactor | [61] |
Botryococcus braunii and Candidatus Phycosocius bacilliformis | 1.8-fold in the biomass and 1.5-fold improvement in total hydrocarbon yield | Vitamin containing modified media of TSP | [62] |
Microbacterium sp. and Chlorella vulgaris | 1.66-fold increment in biomass (cell dry weight) | Modified MBG medium | [63] |
Acidovorax facilis and Scenedesmus obliquus | 1.24-fold in biomass productivity and 1.29-fold in lipid productivity | BG 11 medium | [64] |
Chlorella and Azospirillum brasilense | Increased the cell size up to 1.62-fold in Chlorella vulgaris, and total lipid yield increased up to 1.5–3.8 times in varying Chlorella spp. | Sterile mineral medium (C30) and co-cultivated in the alginate beads | [65] |
Chlorella and Azospirillum brasilense | 2.1-fold in fresh weight and 24-fold increase in the dry weight of alginate beads containing the per gram of microbial biomass | Residual water medium (synthetic wastewater medium) and co-cultivated in alginate beads | [66] |
Stappia sp., Pelagibaca bermudensis and Tetraselmis striata | 1.5–2-fold improvement in biomass productivity | O3 Media with higher T. striata concentration as inoculation | [12] |
P. bermudensis and T. striata | 1.2–3-fold improvement in biomass productivity in varying stressors; 1.5-fold improvement in lipid productivity | O3 media with varying physicochemical conditions | This study |