According to Coppock (1994), in the 1980s, about 45%% of the pastoral households were involved in crop cultivation, while the average cultivated plot size per household was 0.29 ha.
This substrate formulation produced mushroom crop earlier by 5 9 days, on average, than the cultivation on sole raw straws.
The mean shrimp weight was approximately 13 g (i.e., 77 shrimp per kg) and the CV was 46% CV at 120 days cultivation (average daily weight gain of 0.1 g/day).
Starch reached a maximum content of 38 ± 2% (average of duplicate cultivations ± deviation of duplicates from average) of dry weight after 168 ± 2 h and a maximum concentration of 3.6 ± 0.2 g/l after 223 ± 10 h.
The number of outgrown cells after 14 days of cultivation averaged 1,800 cells/well under control conditions whereas addition of IL-1β (1 ng/ml) or TNF-α (10 ng/ml) both reduced outgrowth to less than 10 cells/well on average.
And, comparing with the 0 h (averaging 39 ± 14 %), all the proteins increased significantly (Ppr1 = 0.046, Ppr2 = 0.041, Ppr3 = 0.041, Ppr4 = 0.013, and Ppr5 = 0.030) after 72 h cultivation (averaging 62 ± 15 %), indicating the protein contents varied intensively from bacterial initial attachment to mature biofilm.
The normalised intensities of the protein spots in the replicate protein extracts of the cultivation were averaged and the average values used in Student's t-test to evaluate the significance of the difference between the groups of cultivations.
The elevated average temperature during the cultivation of the semi-continuous culture in 2014 might have promoted higher biomass production.
During the cultivation period, average maximum and minimum temperatures inside the greenhouse ranged between 29.5 and 18.4 ℃, respectively.
During 7 days of cultivation, the average rate of increase in algal biomass was about 1.5 × 106 cells/ml/day.
