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Chlorella sorokiniana - Definition, Glossary, Details - Oilgae
A unique single-celled fresh water micro alga with fish-like odour. Its characteristic emerald-green colour and pleasant grass odour is due to its high content of chlorophyll, in fact the highest compared to any known plant.
Chlorella sorokiniana reproduces at an extremely fast rate, renewing into four new cells in every 17 – 24 hours.
This alga was discovered by a Dutch microbiologist, Martinus W. Beijerinck in 1890. In 1951, the Rockfellar Foundation in collaboration with the Japanese Government and Dr. Hiroshi Tamiya developed the technology to grow, harvest and process Chlorella on a large commercial-feasible scale.
This microalga has also been used extensively as a model system to study enzymes involved in higher plant metabolism
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