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I HAVE on more than one occasion considered the practical interest of achieving giant forms of Chlorella by treatment with a sugar1, in order to use them as inoculum in cultures the growth of which it is desired to accelerate. It is known that such giant cells cultivated in a mineral medium devoid of sugar return to their normal form. However, I presumed that the growth of such cultures would be superior to that of cultures inoculated with normal cells. On the other hand, the composition of the culture medium is also an important factor to be considered4,6.
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RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ, M. Influence of the Inoculum and the Medium on the Growth of Chlorella pyrenoidosa. Nature 203, 666–667 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203666a0
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