Factors influencing pigment production
A range of factors, including species composition and relative
abundance, biological productivity, water chemistry, and geographic
location, may affect the pigment production of marine microbial
communities. These variables include light intensity and spectral
composition (mediated by lake depth, water-column transparency, and
other variables like the duration and extent of winter weather (Hodgson
et al., 2004). Due to their impact on the economy and practicability of
any pigment production process, the optimization of microorganism growth
conditions, particularly physical and nutritional parameters, is
essential (Gopal et al., 2013). The temperature at which microbial
pigments are produced varies greatly depending on the type of microbe,
as well as the carbon supply (glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose,
galactose, etc.) and nitrogen source (depending on the microorganism).
Minerals play an important part in the synthesis of pigments (Susmita
Mishra, 2014)