Nineteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the 19th International Seaweed Symposium, held in Kobe, Japan, 26-31 March, 2007.

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxxvii
Advances in cultivation of Gelidiales....Pages 1-6
Production, use and fate of Chilean brown seaweeds: re-sources for a sustainable fishery....Pages 7-17
Cultivation of the green alga, Codium fragile (Suringar) Hariot, by artificial seed production in Korea....Pages 19-25
Distribution and symptoms of epiphyte infection in major carrageenophyte-producing farms....Pages 27-33
The occurrence of pinhole disease in relation to developmental stage in cultivated Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar (Phaeophyta) in Korea....Pages 35-40
The potential for seaweed resource development in subarctic Canada; Nunavik, Ungava Bay....Pages 41-48
The characterization of color mutations in Bangiaceae (Bangiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 49-54
Public health and carrageenan regulation: a review and analysis....Pages 55-63
Effect of alkali treatment time and extraction time on agar from Gracilaria vermiculophylla ....Pages 65-69
Effects of extraction parameters on gel properties of carrageenan from Kappaphycus alvarezii (Rhodophyta)....Pages 71-76
Gel-forming structures and stages of red algal galactans of different sulfation levels....Pages 77-85
Carrageenan of Eucheuma isiforme (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Nicaragua....Pages 87-91
Some properties of alginate gels derived from algal sodium alginate....Pages 93-99
Growth and carrageenan quality of Kappaphycus striatum var. sacol grown at different stocking densities, duration of culture and depth....Pages 101-105
Purification and characterization of a N -acetylglucosaminidase produced by Talaromyces emersonii during growth on algal fucoidan....Pages 107-115
Essential role of seaweed cultivation in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture farms for global expansion of mariculture: an analysis....Pages 117-120
Opportunities and challenges for the development of an integrated seaweed-based aquaculture activity in Chile: determining the physiological capabilities of Macrocystis and Gracilaria as biofilters....Pages 121-127
Integrated seaweed cultivation on an abalone farm in South Africa....Pages 129-145
Determining the most appropriate feeding regime for the South African abalone Haliotis midae Linnaeus grown on kelp....Pages 147-152
Palm oil mill effluent (POME) cultured marine microalgae as supplementary diet for rotifer culture....Pages 153-158
Seaweed micropropagation techniques and their potentials: an overview....Pages 159-167
Seaweed protoplasts: status, biotechnological perspectives and needs....Pages 169-182
Preparation of protoplasts from Laminaria japonica using native and recombinant abalone alginate lyases....Pages 183-190
Protoplast isolation and regeneration from Gracilaria changii (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 191-201
Callus induction and micropropagation improved by colchicine and phytoregulators in Kappaphycus alvarezii (Rhodophyta, Solieriaceae)....Pages 203-209
Bioactive volatile compounds from marine algae: feeding attractants....Pages 211-214
Liquid seaweed extracts identified using 1 H NMR profiles....Pages 215-221
The use of HRMAS NMR spectroscopy to study the in vivo intra–cellular carbon/nitrogen ratio of Solieria chordalis (Rhodophyta)....Pages 223-229
Growth, pigments, UV-absorbing compounds and agar yield of the economic red seaweed Gracilaria lemaneiformis (Rhodophyta) grown at different depths in the coastal waters of the South China Sea....Pages 231-236
Changes of growth characteristics and free amino acid content of cultivated Porphyra yezoensis Ueda (Bangiales Rhodophyta) blades with the progression of the number of harvests in a nori farm....Pages 237-243
Environment determines nitrogen content and stable isotope composition in the sporophyte of Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar....Pages 245-253
Antioxidant activities of phlorotannins isolated from Japanese Laminariaceae....Pages 255-261
Algicidal activity of polyunsaturated fatty acids derived from Ulva fasciata and U. pertusa (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) on phytoplankton....Pages 263-270
Potential use of seaweeds in the laying hen ration to improve the quality of n-3 fatty acid enriched eggs....Pages 271-278
Physiological differences in the growth of Sargassum horneri between the germling and adult stages....Pages 279-285
Effects of temperature, photosynthetic photon flux density, photoperiod and O 2 and CO 2 concentrations on growth rates of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Amphidinium sp.....Pages 287-292
Photosynthetic and respiratory responses of Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Ohmi) Papenfuss collected from Kumamoto, Shizuoka and Iwate, Japan....Pages 293-300
In situ study of relative electron transport rates in the marine macroalga Fucus vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea at different depths and times of year....Pages 301-306
Effects of photon flux density and agricultural fertilizers on the development of Sarcothalia crispata tetraspores (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) from the Strait of Magellan, Chile....Pages 307-315
Effects of kinetin and nitrogen on growth rates, pigment and protein contents in wild and phycoerythrin-deficient strains of Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta)....Pages 317-323
Rapid and slow modulation of nitrate reductase activity in the red macroalga Gracilaria chilensis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta): influence of different nitrogen sources....Pages 325-332
Molecular characterization of four genes involved in sulfur metabolism in Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C. Agardh....Pages 333-345
Floating period of Sargassacean thalli estimated by the change in density....Pages 347-350
Abundance of drifting seaweeds in eastern East China Sea....Pages 351-359
Diversity, biomass and distribution pattern of Sargassum beds in the South West lagoon of New Caledonia (South Pacific)....Pages 361-373
 Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt in Ireland: an invasive species on the move....Pages 375-382
Effect of seawater temperature on the productivity of Laminaria japonica in the Uwa Sea, southern Japan....Pages 383-394
 Eisenia bicyclis bed coverage off Oshika Peninsula, Japan, in relation to sporophyte survival and Strongylocentrotus nudus abundance....Pages 395-401
Algal communities at Gouqi Island in the Zhoushan archipelago, China....Pages 403-411
A field test of porous carbonated blocks used as artificial reef in seaweed beds of Ecklonia cava ....Pages 413-418
Seaweed of the littoral zone at Cove Island in Long Island Sound: annual variation and impact of environmental factors....Pages 419-432
Gametophyte-sporophyte coalescence in populations of the intertidal carrageenophyte Mazzaella laminarioides (Rhodophyta)....Pages 433-437
Growth and survival performance of the gametophyte of Gigartina skottsbergii (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) under defined nutrient conditions in laboratory culture....Pages 439-446
UVB effects on early developmental stages of commercially important macroalgae in southern Chile....Pages 447-456
Can macroalgae recover, 13 months after the 2004 Tsunami?: a case study at Talibong Island, Trang Province, Thailand....Pages 457-464
Differing patterns of hsp70 gene expression in invasive and native kelp species: evidence for acclimation-induced variation....Pages 465-474
Early development of germlings of Sargassum thunbergii (Fucales, Phaeophyta) under laboratory conditions....Pages 475-481
Seaweeds preferred by herbivorous fishes....Pages 483-488
Making the links: towards a global taxonomy for the red algal genus Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 489-499
Cryptic diversity, biogeography and genetic variation in Northeast Pacific species of Porphyra sensu lato (Bangiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 501-512
Taxonomy and distribution of Sargassum (Phaeophyceae) in the Gulf of Thailand....Pages 513-527
Phylogeography of the genus Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta), with special reference to the Japanese freshwater and brackish taxa....Pages 529-539
Observations on the division characterization of diploid nuclear in Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta)....Pages 541-549