Chlorella sorokiniana
Species of green alga / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chlorella sorokiniana is a species of freshwater green microalga in the Division Chlorophyta.[2] It has a characteristic emerald-green color and pleasant grass odor. Its cells divide rapidly to produce four new cells every 17 to 24 hours. The alga was described by Martinus W. Beijerinck in 1890.[3] In 1951, the Rockefeller Foundation in collaboration with the Japanese Government and Hiroshi Tamiya developed the technology to grow, harvest and process Chlorella sorokiniana on a large, economically feasible scale. This microalga has also been used extensively as a model system to study enzymes involved in higher plant metabolism.[4]
Chlorella sorokiniana | |
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C. sorokiniana cells 400× magnification | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
Order: | Chlorellales |
Family: | Chlorellaceae |
Genus: | Chlorella |
Species: | C. sorokiniana |
Binomial name | |
Chlorella sorokiniana Shihira & R.W.Krauss[1] | |
Also, Chlorella sorokiniana is used to research ways to improve biofuel efficiency.[5][6]
Chlorella sorokiniana is often used as a food supplement[7] or to treat waste water.[8][9]