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Acidophilic and Acidotolerant Algae

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Algal Adaptation to Environmental Stresses

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Many microbes are able to grow at pH values as low as 4, but the majority can also grow at neutral and slightly alkaline pH. Such organisms are usually entitled to be acid-tolerant. This chapter, however, concentrates on acidophilic organisms, which by definition are those microbes which are able to grow at pH values smaller than 3, but are unable to thrive at neutral pH (Fig. 9.1). Some of them grow well even at pH values close to 0. This is not a privilege of prokaryotes, as occasionally claimed (Fig. 9.1A,B).

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Gimmler, H. (2001). Acidophilic and Acidotolerant Algae. In: Rai, L.C., Gaur, J.P. (eds) Algal Adaptation to Environmental Stresses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59491-5_9

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