FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI How do microalgae perceive light in a high-rate pond? Towards more realistic Lagrangian experiments BT AF DEMORY, David COMBE, Charlotte HARTMANN, Philipp TALEC, Amelle PRUVOST, Eric HAMOUDA, Raouf SOUILLE, Fabien LAMAREA, Pierre-Olivier BRISTEAU, Marie-Odile SAINTE-MARIE, Jacques RABOUILLE, Sophie MAIRET, Francis SCIANDRA, Antoine BERNARD, Olivier AS 1:1,2,3;2:1,2,3;3:1,2,3;4:1,3;5:1,3;6:4;7:4;8:2,4;9:4;10:4;11:1,3;12:2,5;13:1,2,3;14:1,2,3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:PDG-RBE-BRM-LPBA;13:;14:; C1 UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Univ, LOV, Observ Oceanol,UMR 7093, F-06230 Villefranche Sur Mer, France. Univ Cote Azur, INRIA, BIOCORE, BP93, F-06902 Sophia Antipolis, France. CNRS, LOV, Observ Oceanol, UMR 7093, F-06230 Villefranche Sur Mer, France. INRIA Paris, Team Ange, 2 Rue Simone Iff,CS 42112, F-75589 Paris 12, France. IFREMER, PBA, F-44311 Nantes, France. C2 UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE INRIA, FRANCE UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE INRIA, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI NANTES SE PDG-RBE-BRM-LPBA IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 DOAJ copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 2.515 TC 21 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00445/55692/57352.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;photosynthesis;hydrodynamics;modelling;photoacclimation;Dunaliella salina;non-photochemical quenching AB Hydrodynamics in a high-rate production reactor for microalgae cultivation affects the light history perceived by cells. The interplay between cell movement and medium turbidity leads to a complex light pattern, whose forcing effects on photosynthesis and photoacclimation dynamics are nontrivial. Hydrodynamics of high density algal ponds mixed by a paddle wheel has been studied recently, although the focus has never been on describing its impact on photosynthetic growth efficiency. In this multidisciplinary downscaling study, we first reconstructed single cell trajectories in an open raceway using an original hydrodynamical model offering a powerful discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations tailored to systems with free surfaces. The trajectory of a particular cell was selected and the associated high-frequency light pattern was computed. This light pattern was then experimentally reproduced in an Arduino-driven computer controlled cultivation system with a low density Dunaliella salina culture. The effect on growth and pigment content was recorded for various frequencies of the light pattern, by setting different paddle wheel velocities. Results show that the frequency of this realistic signal plays a decisive role in the dynamics of photosynthesis, thus revealing an unexpected photosynthetic response compared to that recorded under the on/off signals usually used in the literature. Indeed, the light received by a single cell contains signals from low to high frequencies that nonlinearly interact with the photosynthesis process and differentially stimulate the various time scales associated with photoacclimation and energy dissipation. This study highlights the need for experiments with more realistic light stimuli to better understand microalgal growth at high cell densities. An experimental protocol is also proposed, with simple, yet more realistic, step functions for light fluctuations. PY 2018 PD MAY SO Royal Society Open Science SN 2054-5703 PU Royal Soc VL 5 IS 5 UT 000433498000127 DI 10.1098/rsos.180523 ID 55692 ER EF