Groups | Strain Code | Cell colour | Cell shape | Flagella length | Stigma | Pyrenoid | Refractile granules | Mode of reproduction observed | β Carotene normal/stress (pg/cell) | Salinity optimum | Identified as |
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I | MBTD-CMFRI-S135 | Green to red | Ovoid, spherical, cylindrical | 1.3 or 1.5 to cell length | Not clearly visible or diffuse | Large with distinct amylosphere | Absent | Cell division | 8.68/22.94 | 1.5M NaCl | D. salina |
MBTD-CMFRI-S089 | Green to red | Ovoid, spherical | 1.3 to cell length | Not visible/ Diffuse large | Large with distinct amylosphere | Absent | Cell division | 6.53/23.36 | 1.5M NaCl | D. salina | |
II | MBTD-CMFRI-S118 | Green to orange | Ovoid spherical | 1.5 to cell length | One; large, red, median, diffuse | Small with amylosphere | Absent | Sexual, cell division | 2.11/3.47 | 2.5M NaCl | Dunaliella sp. |
MBTD-CMFRI-S121 | Green | Ovoid pyriform | 1.5-2 to cell length | One; large, red, median, distinct | Large with amylosphere | Absent | Sexual, cell division | 1.59/2.17 | 1.5M NaCl | Dunaliella sp. | |
MBTD-CMFRI-S086 | Green | Ovoid, oval or pyriform | 1.5- 2 to cell length | One; Small, red, median, distinct | Small with amylosphere | Present | Sexual, cell division | 2.68/3.41 | 0.5 M NaCl | Dunaliella sp. | |
III | MBTD-CMFRI-S115 | Green | Ovoid, oval or fusiform | 1.3 to cell length | One; small, red, anterior, distinct | Small with amylosphere | Absent | Palmella, aplanospores | 1.05/1.99 | 1.5M NaCl | D. viridis? |
MBTD-CMFRI-S122 | Green | Oval, cylindrical, | 1.3 to cell length | One; large, red, anterior, distinct, | Large, Amylosphere | Present | Palmella stage | 0.67/1.78 | 1.5M NaCl | D. viridis? | |
MBTD-CMFRI-S133 | Yellow green | Fusiform, Elliptical | 1.3 to cell length | One, Two at lower salinity; small, red, median, distinct | Small, with amylosphere | Absent | Cell division, Palmella, aplanospores | 0.51/1.26 | 1.5M NaCl | D.viridis/D. bioculata? | |
IV | MBTD-CMFRI-S125 | Green | Cylindrical fusiform | Equal or 1.3 to cell length | One, large, red, anterior, distinct | Small, with distinct separate starch grains | Absent | Cell division | 0.70/1.8 | 1.5M NaCl | D. minuta? |
V | MBTD-CMFRI-S147 | Green | Oval, fusiform | 1.5 or 2 to cell length | One, large, red, median distinct | Large with amylosphere | Present | Palmella (dominant stage), Cell division | 0.89/6.7 | 1.5M NaCl | Dunaliella sp. |