Productivity correlated to photobiochemical performance of Chlorella mass cultures grown outdoors in thin-layer cascades

The authors thank Mr. Radek Plch, Ms. Jana Hofhanzlova, Ms. Lada Samcova and Mr. Petr Novotny for technical assistance, Mr. Jan Cerveny for software set-up, Mr. Pavel Soucek for preparation of diagrams, Prof. Josef Komenda for critical discussion, Dr. Steve Ridgill for language corrections, Dr. AnnaRita Leva for statistical analysis and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive remarks. Travel support to G.T. was funded from bilateral scientific agreement between the Italian CNR and the Czech Academy of Sciences. The Czech Science Foundation supported this work through projects 522/06/1090 and 521/09/0656. Partial funding was also provided by project MSM6007665808 of the Ministry of Education and by project AVOZ 50200510 of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and by Italian MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione, Universita e Ricerca), FISR 2002, prot. N. 1756 828.07.2005, and by the Italian Space Agency (project MoMa contract number I/014/06/0).