Effects of using light-emitting diodes on the cultivation of Spirulina platensis

By Chih-Yu Wang, Chun-Chong Fu, Yung-Chuan Liu. 2007

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Phycocyanin from Microalgae: Properties, Extraction and Purification, with Some Recent Applications (2018, neutral): “17 32 The main function of C-PC in cells is to trap light energy (495–650 nm wavelength) and transfer it to other cell pigments during photosynthesis.”
Review of biological and engineering aspects of algae to fuels approach (2009, background): “[48] found red LED exhibited the highest specific growth rate under the condition of 3000 μmol·m·s for Spirulina platensis.”
Impact of light-emitting diode irradiation on photosynthesis, phytochemical composition and mineral element content of lettuce cv. Grizzly (2017, background): “It has been reported that the spectral composition of red LED matches with the absorbance area of Chl a and b in the chloroplasts of higher plants (Schoefs 2002, Wang et al. 2007).”
Cultivation, photobioreactor design and harvesting of microalgae for biodiesel production: a critical review. (2011, methodology): “Wang et al. (2007) found that the highest specific growth rate and biomass production were obtained by using red LED in the photoautotrophic cultivation of Spirulina platensis (Wang et al., 2007).”
Radiation transfer in photobiological carbon dioxide fixation and fuel production by microalgae (2011, background): “Note also that exposing plants and algae to only red light is sufficient to carry out photosynthesis and results in the same growth rates as with white light [86–88].”