Abstract
Seasonal changes in the contents of lipids and photosynthetic pigments (PSP) were investigated in a brown alga Saccharina cichorioides Miyabe (Phaeophyceae, the family Laminariaceae). The content of lipids varied from 0.27 to 0.60% of the algal fresh weight. The content of glyceroglycolipids (GL) was much greater in the time of spore formation (June–July and September–October), phospholipids — in the spring and in September–October, and the content of neutral lipids — in the spring and in November. In the period of spore release (August and October), the level of GL and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) sharply decreased. A high level of PUFA was observed from March to July and in November. In August and October, the same as in the spring, the proportion of saturated fatty acids (FA) was great. The content of chlorophylls from March to November varied from 20.3 to 26.9%, and the level of carotenoids — from 10.7 to 16.1%. Total content of PSP was relatively high in March and in August–September. Free sterols accounted for 3.4–7.3% of total lipids; their proportion was greater in spring than in summer and autumn.
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Abbreviations
- DGDG:
-
digalactosyldiacylglycerols
- FA:
-
fatty acids
- FAME:
-
FA methyl esters
- FFA:
-
free fatty acids
- FSt:
-
free sterols
- GL:
-
glyceroglycolipids
- MGDG:
-
monogalactosyldiacylglycerols
- MGMG:
-
monogalactosylmonoacylglycerols
- NAP:
-
N-acyl pyrrolidides of FAs
- NL:
-
neutral lipids
- PA:
-
phosphatidic acid
- PC:
-
phosphatidylcholines
- PE:
-
phosphatidylethanolamines
- PG:
-
phosphatidylglycerols
- PHEG:
-
phosphatidyl-O-(N(2-hydroxyethyl) glycines
- PI:
-
phosphatidylinositols
- PL:
-
phospholipids
- PSP:
-
photosynthetic pigments
- SFA:
-
saturated fatty acids
- SQDG:
-
sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerols
- TAG:
-
triacylglycerols
- TL:
-
total lipids
- UI:
-
unsaturation index
- USFA:
-
unsaturated fatty acids
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Original Russian Text © N.I. Gerasimenko, N.G. Busarova, S.V. Logvinov, 2014, published in Fiziologiya Rastenii, 2014, Vol. 61, No. 6, pp. 886–892.
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Gerasimenko, N.I., Busarova, N.G. & Logvinov, S.V. Seasonal changes in the content of lipids and photosynthetic pigments in a brown alga Saccharina cichorioides . Russ J Plant Physiol 61, 893–898 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1021443714050082
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