The amount of extracellular polysaccharide produced by eight species of green and blue-green algae ranges from 174 milligrams per liter to 557 milligrams per liter. Most of the polymers are composed of four monosaccharides: a hexose, a pentose, a methyl pentose, and uronic acid. The production of excessive amounts of these photosynthetic end products will undoubtedly influence the effective recycling time of growth media in life-support systems.

Stark-effect measurements on pure rotational transitions of GeO and GeS are described. Measurements on the ground vibrational state of the most abundant isotopic molecules resulted in the following electric dipole moments:GeGeDue to improved resolution and sensitivity of the spectrometer, the rotational spectra of GeS were measured in more detail and with greater accuracy than previously. The derived rotational constants, Y

Extracellular polysaccharides were isolated from the blue-green alga Anabaena flos-aquae strain A-37. The polysaccharides are composed of glucuronic acid, glucose, xylose, and ribose in a molar ratio of 1:88:39:3. The extracellular polysaccharides comprise about 40% of the total carbohydrate produced by this alga.Carbon utilization experiments revealed that only D-fructose could be substituted for carbon dioxide as a precursor of polysaccharides and cellular material.The extracellular polysaccharides are derived from water-soluble intracellular polysaccharides of the same composition.Fructose accumulates in stationary phase cells grown in CO2 and the presence of the enzymes fructose diphosphate phosphatase and fructose diphosphate aldolase was demonstrated. Tracer studies showed the presence of phosphorylated compounds common to the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle and the glycolytic pathway.

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