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Proceed<strong>in</strong>g of the 4 rd International Symposium“NEW RESEARCH IN BIOTECHNOLOGY” USAMV Bucharest, Romania, 2011<strong>in</strong>fluence more the pigments formation than the use of NH 4 H 2 PO 4 <strong>in</strong>stead of the controlm<strong>in</strong>eral nitrogen source.4. Influence of fatty acids additionsIn or<strong>de</strong>r to study the possible <strong>in</strong>fluence of the <strong>in</strong>troduction of small concentrations of fattyacids on growth and pigments formation consi<strong>de</strong>r<strong>in</strong>g the Rhodotorula yeasts capacity toassimilate these acids as valuable carbon sources [11] the control medium formula wassupplemented with 0.1% of fatty acids: l<strong>in</strong>oleic/oleic/stearic/palmitic. Aga<strong>in</strong> the growth andthe total carotenoids concentration compared with the torularhod<strong>in</strong> concentration were<strong>de</strong>term<strong>in</strong>ed. The carotenoids formation, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g torularhod<strong>in</strong> is presented <strong>in</strong> the Table 2,and the growth curves for the same experimental variants are represented <strong>in</strong> the fig. 5.Table 2. Experimental variants notation function of the use of fatty acidsCLOSPMediumcompositionvariantsFatty acids additionControl (MS3)Glucose + 0.1% l<strong>in</strong>oleic acidGlucose + 0.1% oleic acidGlucose + 0.1% stearic acidGlucose + 0.1% palmitic acidThe growth was better when oleic acid was used and the carotenoids and torularhod<strong>in</strong>concentrations are the highest for this variant.It is to mention that the <strong>in</strong>fluence of the addition of small concentrations of am<strong>in</strong>o acidsalan<strong>in</strong>e or threon<strong>in</strong>e was more important.2018mn0y,6sitenaldticpO16141210864200 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160Time, hControl L O S PFig. 5 Influence of fatty acids addition on the growth of Rhodotorula rubra ICCF 209 yeast101

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