ИСТИНА

Fucoxanthin is one of the most commercial valuable carotenoids because of its various biological activities. Antioxidant, antidiabetic, antitumor, anti-obesity and anti-inflammatory effects have been shown for this compound. Mallomonas kalinae SBV-13 (Synurophyceae) is the strain of microalgae with the highest known content of fucoxanthin in dry biomass – 26.6 mg g-1. In this research we focus on growth optimization of SBV-13 for semi-commercial scale cultivation for columnar photobioreactor (20L). Additionally we measured the fucoxanthin content of the other 18 microalgae strains.