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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering >> 2009, Volume 3, Issue 1 doi: 10.1007/s11783-008-0065-1

Inhibitive effects of three compositae plants on

School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University

Available online: 2009-03-05

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Abstract

Based on common phenomena of biochemical interaction between plants and microorganisms, the inhibitive effects of three common terrestrial compositae plants, namely DC., (L.) Cronq., and (L.) Sch.-Bip. on the blue algae was studied. Live compositae plants are co-cultivated with algae in two different inoculation doses for 10 days in 5-pools incubators, in order to exclude the influence of bacteria and nutrients. The results show that DC has the most inhibitive potential among the three plants as evidenced by the most drastic decrease in optical density (OD ) of the algae. The inhibition rate is 93.3% (with initial inoculation dose of 2.0 × 10 Cells/mL) and 89.3% (with initial inoculation dose of 4.0 × 10 Cells/mL) respectively on the 10 day of cultivation. The average inhibition rate during the later half of the experiment is 0.76 (with initial inoculation dose of 2.0 × 10 Cells/mL) and 0.71 (with initial inoculation dose of 4.0 × 10 Cells/mL), respectively. Logistic model analysis shows that compositae plants such as DC. causes the reduction of the habitat's carrying capacity of algae. ANOVA analysis is used to determine the similarity and differences between every experimental group and an average inhibitive rate model is used to evaluate the inhibition effects. The results show that DC., which grow well in the aquatic environment, may have a great potential in controlling algae bloom in eutrophic water.

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