II. THE RATE OF RESPIRATION OF CULTURES OF CHLORELLA PYRENOIDOSA AS A FUNCTION OF TIME AND OF TEMPERATURE

C. S. French ¹, H. I. Kohn ¹, and P. S. Tang ¹

¹ From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge

The respiration of the green alga Chlorella pyrenoidosa, suspended in Knop's solution, has been studied in the dark as a function of time and of temperature. The rates of oxygen consumption and of carbon dioxide production (at constant temperature) decline for about 25 hours to a low, constant level. From an analysis of the curves it is suggested that two substances, A and B, are utilized, whose respiratory quotients are 1 and 0.65 respectively. The values of the temperature characteristics were found to be: for oxidation of A, 19,500 (0.6 to 11.5°C.) and 3,500 (11.5 to 28°C.); for oxidation of B, 5,600 (23.4 to 0.6°C.).

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