Opening address to the Symposium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. GREETINGS 1
4. Opening address to the Symposium 3
5. Part I: PLENARY LECTURES
6. BIOSYNTHESIS OF ALGINATE 7
7. PHOTOBIOLOGY OF SEAWEEDS: ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS 35
8. THE HOLE OF OLEFINIC HYDROCARBONS IN SEXUAL REPRODUCTION OF MARINE BROWN ALGAE 57
9. THE DOMESTICATION AND CULTIVATION OF CALIFORNIAN MACROALGAE 71
10. MARINE PHYCOLOGY AND EXPLOITATION OF SEAWEEDS IN SOUTH AMERICA 97
11. REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RED SEAWEED SOURCE CHEMISTRY AND USES 113
12. MARINE PHYCOCULTURE IN CHINA 123
13. Part II: ORDINARY LECTURES
14. 1. Distribution, Morphology, Taxonomy
15. LIFE HISTORY OF GYMNOGONGRUS GRIFFITHSIAE (TURNER) MARTIUS 155
16. TAXONOMIC AND BIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON SPECIES OF IRIDAEA BORY IN CENTRAL CHILE 163
17. MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON AGARDHIELLA SCHMITZ (GIGARTINALES, RHODOPHYTA) FROM VENEZUELA 175
18. OB DEEP-SEA RED ALGAL VEGETATIONS IN THE JAPAN SEA, AND A NEW NEMASTOMACEOUS ALGA, PREDAEOPSIS JAPONICA N. GEN. N. SP. 181
19. ON THE IDENTITY OF LAURENCIA PINNATIFIDA FROM SCANDINAVIAN COASTS 187
20. SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN THE PALMARIACEAE 191
21. EGG LIBERATION IN SOME JAPANESE SARGASSACEAE (PHAEOPHYCEAE) 197
22. PORTERINEMA FLUVIATILE AS A STAGE IN THE LIFE HISTORY OF SORAPION KJELLMANII (FUCOPHYCEAE, RALFSIACEAE). 203
23. EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE DIURNAL PERIODICITY OF TETRASPORES OF SOME GIGARTINALES (RHODOPHYTA) 209
24. THE MARINE SEAWEED OF CHILE'S TENTH REGION (Valdivia, Osorno, Llanquihue and Chilofe) 215
25. 2. Ecology
26. ON THE VEGETATION DYNAMICS OF GRACILARIA SPEC. IN PLAYA CHANGA, COQUIMBO, CHILE 223
27. THE PHYTOBENTHOS OF A MEDITERRANEAN HARBOUR, PORT-VENDRES 229
28. BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY OF THE SICILY CHANNEL 235
29. THE ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF KELP-LIKE HOLDFASTS AS A HABITAT OF INVERTEBRATES III CENTRAL CHILE 241
30. PRODUCTIVITY OF LAMINARIA SOLIDUNGULA J. AG. IN THE CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC: A YEAR-ROUND STUDY 247
31. VARIATION IN ANNUAL PRODUCTION BY ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM (L.)LE JOLIS WITH DEGREE OF EXPOSURE TO WAVE ACTION 253
32. ECOLOGY DISTRIBUTION AND SEASONALITY OF CRYPTONEMIA HIBERNICA GUIRY ET IRVINE ON THE SOUTH COAST OF IRELAND. 259
33. STUDIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAU4ARIA PALMATA (RHODOPHYCEAE) USING IN SITU CONTROLLED CULTURES 265
34. EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND IRRADIANCE ON GROWTH AND RESPIRATION OF CHONDRUS CRISPUS STACKH 271
35. DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL OF THE BROWN ALGA SARGASSUM MUTICUM 277
36. REMARKS ON SUCCESSION IN ROCKY INTERTIDAL SYSTEMS 283
37. THE GROWTH, REPRODUCTION, HARVESTING AND MANAGEMENT OF PTEROCLADIA PINNATA (RHODOPHYCEAE) IN THE AZORES, PORTUGAL 289
38. COMPARISON OF GROWTH STRATEGY IN LAMINARIA POPULATIONS LIVING UNDER DIFFERING SEASONAL PATTERNS OF NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY 297
39. FLUCTUATIONS IN EPIPHYTE BIOMASS FOLLOWING LAMINARIA HYPERBOREA CANOPY REMOVAL 303
40. BIOMASS AND VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF FURCELLARIA LUMBRICALIS AND ASSOCIATED ALGAE 309
41. THE ALGAL VEGETATION AT A PLATFORM SHORE AT MIKHMORET 315
42. SEASONAL OCCURRENCE OF SCYTOSIPHON LOMENTARIA (SCYTOSIPHONALES, FUCOPHYCEAE) IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS 321
43. TIDE POOL ASSOCIATIONS OF BENTHIC ALGAE IN ICELANDIC WATERS 327
44. PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIPOSOLUBLE PIGMENTS IN SEAWEEDS, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL MEANING 333
45. ASPECTS OF THE LIGHT AND NITROGENOUS NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT FOR GROWTH OF CHORDARIA FLAGELLIFORMIS (O.F.MULL) C.AG. 339
46. BIOLOGICAL DATA OK A SOUTHERN PHAEOPHYCEAE ADENOCYSTIS UTRICULARIS (BORY) SKOITSBERG, POSSIBLE MATERIAL FOR ALGINATE INDUSTRY. 345
47. PRODUCTION ECOLOGY OF CHILEAN GELIDIALES 351
48. ECOLOGY, LIFE HISTORY AND NUCLEUS DNA CONTENTS OF DERBESIA TENUISSIMA FROM THE CARIBBEAN COAST OF COLOMBIA 357
49. CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF SOME BALTIC MACROALGAE IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS 363
50. 3. Biochemistry, Physiology
51. THE DISTRIBUTION AND COMPOSITION OF POLYMERS IN THE MEDULLA OF ASCOPHYLLUM RECEPTACLES 373
52. ANALYSIS OF KAPPA-IOTA HYBRID CARRAGEENANS WITH KAPPA-CARRAGEENASE, IOTA-CARRAGEENASE AND ¹³c N.M.R. 379
53. ISOLATION & PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF RECEPTORS INVOLVED Hi EGG-SPERM RECOGNITION IN FUCUS SERRATUS 385
54. CARRAGEENAN ANALYSIS IN APOMICTIC GIGARTINA STELLATA - NEW PUZZLES 391
55. CHEMICAL CLEAVAGE OF TANNINS FROM BROWN ALGAE (PHLOROTANNINS) 397
56. IN SITU INVESTIGATION ON THE ENERGY FLOW IN A BALTIC FUCUS COMMUNITY 405
57. NITRATE AND PHOSPHATE UPTAKE IN SMALL POPULATIONS OF LAMIMARÎÀ VIG1TATA (PHAEOPHYCEAE) 411
58. SOME ENZYMATIC PROPERTIES OF POLYMANNURONIC ACID 5-EPIMERASE IN BROWN ALGAE 419
59. DETERMINATION OF URONIC ACID COMPONENTS IN ALGINIC ACID 425
60. THE VARIATION IN CONTENTS OP VARIOUS STATES Of AMINO ACIDS IN PORPHYRA YEZOENSIS 431
61. METABOLIC IMPLICATIONS OF ß-CARBOXYLATION IN BROWN SEAWEED 437
62. EXTRACTS FROM SOME RED AND BROWN SEAWEEDS OF THE PHILIPPINES 443
63. THE TURN-OVER DF SULPHATES DIM THE LAMBDA-CARRAGEENAN DF THE CELL-UALLS DF THE RED SEAWEED GIGARTINALE : CATENELLA OPUNTIA (GREV.) 449
64. SEASONAL VARIATION OF THE CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS OF GRACILARIA CULTIVATED IN TAIWAN 455
65. A RAPID INFRA-RED CARBON DIOXIDE ANALYSIS SCREENING TECHNIQUE FOR PREDICTING GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY OF MARINE ALGAE 461
66. MICRONUTRIENT UPTAKE BY JUVENILE MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA (L.) 467
67. CARRAGEENANS OF SPECIES IN THE GENUS PHYLLOPHORA 473
68. ENZYMES FROM PSEUDOMONAS CARRAGEENOVORA. APPLICATION TO STUDIES OF CARRAGEENAN STRUCTURE 479
69. THE EFFECT OF CALCIUM-ION CONCENTRATION ON POLY-Q-MANNURONATE C-5-EPIMERASE 485
70. THE INFRARED SPECTRA OF CARRAGEENANS EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS ALGAE 495
71. THE MeCDPS, A CARRYING SULPHATE'S NUCLEOTIDE OF THE RED SEAWEED CATENELLA OPUNTIA (GREV.) 503
72. PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF PORPHIRA UNDER STEADY STATE AND FLUCTUATING SALINITY REGIMES 509
73. COMPARATIVE PHOTOSTNTHETIC STUDIES ON BENTHIC SEAWEEDS 515
74. UPTAKE AND INCORPORATION OF ³⁵S INTO CARRAGEENAN AMONG DIFFERENT STRAINS OF CHONDRUS CRISPUS 521
75. IMMUNOELECTROPHORETIC STUDY OF CHANGES IN CELL WALL ANTIGENS DURING FUCUS EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT 531
76. AGAR FROM AN INTERTIDAL POPULATION OF GRACILARIA SP. 537
77. STUDIES ON PHENOLIC CONTENT OF SOME BROWN ALGAE FROM ADRIATIC SEA 543
78. 4. Cultures
79. GROWTH OF THE CYANOPHYTA AGMENELLUM QUADRUPLICATUM CULTIVATED ON GLYCINE OR NITRATE AT VARIOUS TEMPERATURE AND IRRADIANCE CONDITIONS 551
80. GROWTH RESPONSE OF CHONDRUS CRISPUS (RHODOPHYTA, GIGARTINALES) TO LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE IN LABORATORY AND OUTDOOR TANKS CULTURE 553
81. THE APPLICATION OF GENETIC IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES TO SEAWEED CULTIVATION: I. STRAIN SELECTION IN THE CARRAGEENOPHYTE CHONDRUS CRISPUS 559
82. CULTIVATION OF GRACILARIA (RHODOPHYCOPHYTA, GIGARTINALES) IN TAIWAN 569
83. MANIPULATION OF THE LAMINARIALEAN LIFE-CYCLE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR KOMBU MARICULTURE 575
84. L.D. Druehl and R. Boal 581
85. EXPLORATORY STUDIES OF VEGETATIVE PROPOGATICN OF MARINE AGLAE: PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING AXENIC TISSUES 587
86. REVOLUTIONARY IMPACT OF EUCHEUMA CULTIVATION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ON THE CARRAGEENAN INDUSTRY 595
87. BREAKTHROUGH IN THE COMMERCIAL CULTURE OF EUCHEUMA SPINOSUM IN NORTHERN BOHOL, PHILIPPINES 601
88. GROWTH RATES OF CORALLINA (RHODOPHYTA , CORALLINACEAE) IN JAPAN 607
89. EXPERIMENTAL FERTILIZING OF COASTAL MACROCYSTIS BEDS 613
90. STUDIES IN DOMESTICATION OF EUCHEUMA UNCINATUM 619
91. THE "ICE-ICE" PROBLEM IN SEAWEED FARMING 625
92. DEVELOPMENT OF A COASTAL MARINE FARM AND ITS ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS 631
93. TIP-CUTTING OF FRONDS AS A MEANS OF INCREASING PRODUCTION IN LAMINARIA AQUACULTURE 637
94. PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON MASS CULTURE OF GRACILARIA SP USING DIFFERENT NUTRIENT MEDIA 643
95. 5. Application, Biomass, Technology, Utilization
96. THE COMPOSITION OF MAȄRL BEDS OF ECONOMIC INTEREST IN NORTHERN BRITTANY, CORNWALL AND IRELAND 651
97. DO WE REALLY NEED TO GROW MACROCYSTIS IN EUROPE? 657
98. AGAR FROM GRACILARIA VERRUCOSA (HUDSON) PAPENFUSS AND GRACILARIA SJOESTEDTII KYLIN FROM NORTHEAST BRASIL 669
99. THE COMMERCIAL COLLECTION AND UTILISATION OF SEAWEEDS IN IRELAND 675
100. METHANE PRODUCTION FROM THE RED SEAWEED GRACILARIA TIKVAHIAE 681
101. THE BIOMASS OF SEAWEEDS AT THE KULLEN, S. SWEDEN 687
102. EXPERIMENTAL HARVESTING OF GRACILARIA IN NEW ZEALAND 693
103. PROBLEMS OF CONVERTING LINEAR GROWTH INCREMENTS OF KELPS TO ESTIMATES OF BIOMASS PRODUCTION 699
104. STUDIES ON GRACILARIA SP. IN BAHIA ARREDONDO, CHUBUT PROVINCE, ARGENTINA 705
105. APPLICATIONS OF AGAROSE IN BIOMEDICAL TECHNIQUES IN RELATION TO PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES 711
106. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANNUAL LANDINGS OF CHONDRUS DRAGRAKERS, EFFORT, AND STANDING CROP IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE 719
107. CHILEAN SEAWEED RESOURCES: A QUANTITATIVE REVIEW OF POTENTIAL AND PRESENT UTILIZATION 725
108. SUBCOMMERCIAL HARVESTING OF A KELP ON A SOUTH AFRICAN SHORE 731
109. SEASONAL VARIATION OF AGAR-AGAR PRODUCED IN TAIWAN AREA 737
110. THE SEASONAL VARIATION IN THE BI0MAS3 AND REPRODUCTIVE STATES OF GRACILARIA IN MANILA BAY 743
111. Part III. Special Sessions
112. METHODS AND TERMINOLOGY IN PHYCOLOGY 751
113. Part IV
114. PARTICIPANTS 757
115. SUBJECT INDEX 771
116. TAXONOMIC INDEX 777
117. Backmatter 781