Optimizing Phaeodactylum tricornutum cultivation: integrated strategies for enhancing biomass, lipid, and fucoxanthin production

Table 1 Biomass productivity (BP), lipid productivity (LP), and fucoxanthin productivity (FP) for P. tricornutum under various nutrient conditions on day 8th of cultivation

Productivities	Control	Zero-N	− 50%N	+ 50%N	Zero-P	− 50%P	+ 50%P	Si-zero	− 50%Si	+ 50%Si
BP mg L⁻¹ d⁻¹	67.93 ± 0.001^c	23.73 ± 0.00^e	42.84 ± 0.001^d	81.08 ± 0.02^b	6.37 ± 0.02^f	23.38 ± 0.04^e	82.42 ± 0.11^b	95.92 ± 0.01^a	66.65 ± 0.01^b	100.97 ± 0.01^a
LP mg L⁻¹ d⁻¹	32.62 ± 0.01^d	5.15 ± 0.01^g	36.22 ± 0.05^c	22.46 ± 0.03^e	4.00 ± 0.11^f	10.49 ± 0.09^e	60.16 ± 0.13^a	49.37 ± 0.14^b	36.78 ± 0.12^c	65.48 ± 0.14^a
FP mg L⁻¹ d⁻¹	0.20 ± 0.001^c	0.11 ± 0.001^d	0.03 ± 0.001^e	2.19 ± 0.01^a	0.37 ± 0.001^b	0.03 ± 0.001^c	0.13 ± 0.001^d	0.22 ± 0.002^c	0.02 ± 0.001^f	0.04 ± 0.002^e

The different superscript lowercase letter in each row means a significant difference at P < 0.05

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