Enhanced arachidonic acid production using a bioreactor culture of Mortierella alpina with a combined organic nitrogen source

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Table 3 Comparison of ARA production of M. alpina reported in the literatures

Strain	Culture mode	Fermentor volume (L)	Culture time (d)	ARA yield(g L⁻¹)	Reference
LMP 301	Batch	30	8	4.5	Eroshin et al. (2000)
DSA-12	Batch	12	6	4.8	Hwang et al. (2005)
UW-1	Batch	20	6	5.5	Li et al. (1995)
ME-AA01	Batch	5	7	5.8	Lu et al. (2011)
R807	Batch	7.5	7	8.29	Nie et al. (2014)
R807	Fed-batch	7.5	7	6.7	Ji et al. (2014)
D20	Fed-batch	250-mL flask	8	6.82	Li et al. (2015)
M6	Fed-batch	250-mL flask	8	7.74	Zhu et al. (2006)
ATCC32222	Fed-batch	250-mL flask	11	11	Singh and Ward (1997)
DSA-12	Fed-batch	12	12.5	18.8	Hwang et al. (2005)
ME-1	Fed-batch	5	11	19.8	Jin et al. (2008)
LU166	Batch	3.6	6	7.8	This study