1. Pilot plant scale extraction of alginate from Macrocystis pyrifera. 1. Effect of pre-extraction treatments on yield and quality of alginate

   • Gustavo Hernández-carmona
   • Dennis J. McHugh
   • Y. Elizabeth Rodríguez-montesinos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 513

2. Dunaliella salina (Chlorophyta) with small chlorophyll antenna sizes exhibit higher photosynthetic productivities and photon use efficiencies than normally pigmented cells

   • Anastasios Melis
   • John Neidhardt
   • John R. Benemann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 525

3. Toxicological analysis of the marine cyanobacterium Nodularia harveyana

   • Benjamin Pushparaj
   • Elio Pelosi
   • Friedrich Jüttner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 530

4. Regeneration and reproduction of Mazzaella cornucopiae (Rhodophyta, Gigartinaceae) after frond harvesting

   • Ricardo Scrosati

   OriginalPaper Pages: 531 - 537

5. A new isolation procedure and further characterisation of the lectin from the red marine alga Ptilota serrata

   • Alexandre H. Sampaio
   • David J. Rogers
   • Márcio V. Ramos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 546

6. Effect of thiobencarb on growth and photosynthesis of the soil alga Protosiphon botryoides (Chlorophyta)

   • Hamed M. Eladel
   • William J. Henley
   • Imam A. Kobbia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 554

7. Euglena gracilis as source of the antioxidant vitamin E. Effects of culture conditions in the wild strain and in the natural mutant WZSL

   • C. Kusmic
   • R. Barsacchi
   • V. Passarelli

   OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 559

8. Growth activation of the microalga Isochrysis galbana by the aqueous extract of the seaweed Monostroma nitidum

   • Ji Young Cho
   • Hyung-Joo Jin
   • Yong-Ki Hong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 567

9. Flow cytometric analysis of nocodazole-induced cell-cycle arrest in the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin

   • Christine K.F. Ng
   • Connie M.C. Lam
   • J.T.Y. Wong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 569 - 572

10. Comparison of PCR-RFLP analysis of the ITS region with morphological criteria of various strains of Dunaliella

    • Mariela A. González
    • Patricia I. Gómez
    • Rolando Montoya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 573 - 580

11. Characterization of the UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase gene from the marine red alga Gracilaria gracilis

    • Arturo O. Lluisma
    • Mark A. Ragan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 581 - 588

12. Authors index

    OriginalPaper Pages: 589 - 591

13. Volume contents

    OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 596