The invention relates to a method for quickly screening high-yield
astaxanthin phaffia rhodozyma strains (
Phaffia rhodozyma CGMCC2.1557). The method includes steps: 1) activating and culturing wild-type
phaffia rhodozyma strains in a constant-temperature
incubator at 22-25 DEG C, taking a small quantity of single colonies to add into a seed medium, and performing shake cultivation by 120-130r / min;2) performing ARTP (atmospheric and
room temperature plasma)
mutagenesis of the wild-type
phaffia rhodozyma strains for 150-180s; 3) transferring
bacteria liquid into a centrifugal tube after
mutagenesis, and performing gradient
dilution and flat plate
coating; 4) transferring the strains to a 24-pore plate, performing shake cultivation for 45-50h, and observing through a
confocal laser scanningmicroscope to screen candidate
mutant strains; 5) carrying out shake cultivation in the seed medium; 6) performing proportional
inoculation of seed liquid in a
fermentation medium, and starting shakecultivation; 7) ultrasonically extracting
astaxanthin for 1-1.2h, and detecting the
astaxanthin content of fermented liquid by
high performance liquid chromatography; 8) screening out high-yield astaxanthin
mutant strains, wherein yield is increased by 25-55% compared with that of the mild-type strains. The high-yield astaxanthin phaffia rhodozyma strains are screened by two steps including colonycolor
primary screening and
cell fluorescence intensity re-screening, the method is simple in operation, safe and free of
pollution, the
mutant strains are stable, and industrial production cost is reduced.