Nineteenth International Seaweed Symposium

Advances in cultivation of Gelidiales.- Production, use and fate of Chilean brown seaweeds: re-sources for a sustainable fishery.- Cultivation of the green alga, Codium fragile (Suringar) Hariot, by artificial seed production in Korea.- Distribution and symptoms of epiphyte infection in major carrageenophyte-producing farms.- The occurrence of pinhole disease in relation to developmental stage in cultivated Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar (Phaeophyta) in Korea.- The potential for seaweed resource development in subarctic Canada; Nunavik, Ungava Bay.- The characterization of color mutations in Bangiaceae (Bangiales, Rhodophyta).- Public health and carrageenan regulation: a review and analysis.- Effect of alkali treatment time and extraction time on agar from Gracilaria vermiculophylla.- Effects of extraction parameters on gel properties of carrageenan from Kappaphycus alvarezii (Rhodophyta).- Gel-forming structures and stages of red algal galactans of different sulfation levels.- Carrageenan of Eucheuma isiforme (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Nicaragua.- Some properties of alginate gels derived from algal sodium alginate.- Growth and carrageenan quality of Kappaphycus striatum var. sacol grown at different stocking densities, duration of culture and depth.- Purification and characterization of a N-acetylglucosaminidase produced by Talaromyces emersonii during growth on algal fucoidan.- Essential role of seaweed cultivation in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture farms for global expansion of mariculture: an analysis.- 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.- Integrated seaweed cultivation on an abalone farmin South Africa.- Determining the most appropriate feeding regime for the South African abalone Haliotis midae Linnaeus grown on kelp.- Palm oil mill effluent (POME) cultured marine microalgae as supplementary diet for rotifer culture.- Seaweed micropropagation techniques and their potentials: an overview.- Seaweed protoplasts: status, biotechnological perspectives and needs.- Preparation of protoplasts from Laminaria japonica using native and recombinant abalone alginate lyases.- Protoplast isolation and regeneration from Gracilaria changii (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta).- Callus induction and micropropagation improved by colchicine and phytoregulators in Kappaphycus alvarezii (Rhodophyta, Solieriaceae).- Bioactive volatile compounds from marine algae: feeding attractants.- Liquid seaweed extracts identified using 1H NMR profiles.- The use of HRMAS NMR spectroscopy to study the in vivo intra–cellular carbon/nitrogen ratio of Solieria chordalis (Rhodophyta).- 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.- 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.- Environment determines nitrogen content and stable isotope composition in the sporophyte of Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar.- Antioxidant activities of phlorotannins isolated from Japanese Laminariaceae.- Algicidal activity of polyunsaturated fatty acids derived from Ulva fasciata and U. pertusa (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) on phytoplankton.- Potential use of seaweeds in the laying hen ration to improve the quality of n-3 fatty acidenriched eggs.- Physiological differences in the growth of Sargassum horneri between the germling and adult stages.- Effects of temperature, photosynthetic photon flux density, photoperiod and O2 and CO2 concentrations on growth rates of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Amphidinium sp..- Photosynthetic and respiratory responses of Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Ohmi) Papenfuss collected from Kumamoto, Shizuoka and Iwate, Japan.- 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.- Effects of photon flux density and agricultural fertilizers on the development of Sarcothalia crispata tetraspores (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) from the Strait of Magellan, Chile.- Effects of kinetin and nitrogen on growth rates, pigment and protein contents in wild and phycoerythrin-deficient strains of Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta).- Rapid and slow modulation of nitrate reductase activity in the red macroalga Gracilaria chilensis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta): influence of different nitrogen sources.- Molecular characterization of four genes involved in sulfur metabolism in Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C. Agardh.- Floating period of Sargassacean thalli estimated by the change in density.- Abundance of drifting seaweeds in eastern East China Sea.- Diversity, biomass and distribution pattern of Sargassum beds in the South West lagoon of New Caledonia (South Pacific).- Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt in Ireland: an invasive species on the move.- Effect of seawater temperature on the productivity of Laminaria japonica in the Uwa Sea, southern Japan.- Eisenia bicyclis bed coverage off Oshika Peninsula, Japan, in relation to sporophyte survival and Strongylocentrotus nudus abundance.- Algal communities at Gouqi Island in the Zhoushan archipelago, China.- A field test of porous carbonated blocks used as artificial reef in seaweed beds of Ecklonia cava.- Seaweed of the littoral zone at Cove Island in Long Island Sound: annual variation and impact of environmental factors.- Gametophyte-sporophyte coalescence in populations of the intertidal carrageenophyte Mazzaella laminarioides (Rhodophyta).- Growth and survival performance of the gametophyte of Gigartina skottsbergii (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) under defined nutrient conditions in laboratory culture.- UVB effects on early developmental stages of commercially important macroalgae in southern Chile.- Can macroalgae recover, 13 months after the 2004 Tsunami?: a case study at Talibong Island, Trang Province, Thailand.- Differing patterns of hsp70 gene expression in invasive and native kelp species: evidence for acclimation-induced variation.- Early development of germlings of Sargassum thunbergii (Fucales, Phaeophyta) under laboratory conditions.- Seaweeds preferred by herbivorous fishes.- Making the links: towards a global taxonomy for the red algal genus Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta).- Cryptic diversity, biogeography and genetic variation in Northeast Pacific species of Porphyra sensu lato (Bangiales, Rhodophyta).- Taxonomy and distribution of Sargassum (Phaeophyceae) in the Gulf of Thailand.- Phylogeography of the genus Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta), with special reference to the Japanese freshwater and brackish taxa.- Observations on the division characterization of diploid nuclear in Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta).