Protocols for Macroalgae Research

Protocols for Macroalgae Research

Bénédicte Charrier, Thomas Wichard, C R K Reddy

April 17, 2018

Published by CRC Press
Reference - 526 Pages - 53 Color & 68 B/W Illustrations

ISBN 9781498796422 - CAT# K30375

Summary

Protocols for Macroalgae Research describes state-of-the-art approaches and applications in seaweed research. The book is comprised of 31 protocols in all and provides critical information regarding the cultivation and preservation of seaweeds, their chemical composition, as well as their cellular and molecular characterization. This type of research is critical and timely, as the last few decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in phycological research worldwide. Consideration of algal resources for food, fuel, chemicals, feed, and fertilizer has furthered the development of diverse laboratory techniques that not only advance their utilization substantially, but also provided new insights in understanding the molecular basis of their form and function. This recent progress has enabled researchers to determine and quantify various metabolites and organic macromolecules such as carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids.

Protocols for Macroalgae Research thus uses macroalgae as a model organism for addressing fundamental research problems. No recent comprehensive literature of this format exists on this topic. As such, this state-of-the-art protocol text both develops and standardizes the various macroalgae approaches located within the field. It does so by featuring a wide-range of protocols from invited experts; each protocol features a brief introductory overview, an inventory of materials and reagents, and step-by-step experimental procedures, which include helpful notes offering care and cautions. This protocol book is an invaluable reference for beginning and preexisting researchers within the field of macroalgae.

 

Table of Contents

Section I:  Cultivating and preserving seaweeds

Chapter 1 Seaweed in high-energy environments: Protocol

to move Saccharina cultivation offshore

Bela H. Buck and Britta Grote

Chapter 2 Cultivation protocol for Saccharina latissima

Silje Forbord, Kristine Braaten Steinhovden,

Kaia Kjølbo Rød, Aleksander Handå, and Jorunn Skjermo

Chapter 3 Derivation of clonal stock cultures and hybridization

of kelps: A tool for strain preservation and breeding

programs

Inka Bartsch

Chapter 4 Cryopreservation of macroalgae

John G. Day

Chapter 5 Unraveling seaweeds bacteriomes: From field site

to computer screen

Tânia Aires, Gerard Muyzer, Ester A. Serrão, and

Aschwin H. Engelen

Chapter 6 Heavy metal ecotoxicity on the early life history

stages of macroalgae

Pablo P. Leal and Michael Y. Roleda

Chapter 7 A simple protocol for a rapid and consistent

production of a large number of viable protoplasts

from the Ulvophycean species

Vishal Gupta and C.R.K. Reddy

Chapter 8 Purification of sporulation and swarming inhibitors

from Ulva: Application in algal life-cycle controlling

Ralf W. Kessler, Taghreed Alsufyani, and Thomas Wichard

Chapter 9 Preparation of axenic cultures in Ulva (Chlorophyta)

Gianmaria Califano and Thomas Wichard

 

Section II: Chemical composition

Chapter 10 Biochar production from seaweeds

Loretto Contreras-Porcia, Matías Araya,

Elizabeth Garrido-Ramírez, Cristian Bulboa,

Jean Pierre Remonsellez, Javier Zapata, Camila Espinoza,

and Jorge Rivas

Chapter 11 Identification and quantification of laminarins

in brown algae

Angelika Graiff, Wolfgang Ruth, and Ulf Karsten

Chapter 12 Determination of carbohydrate composition

of macroalgae

Wouter J.J. Huijgen, E.M. Cobussen-Pool, B.F. van Egmond,

and J.W. van Hal

Chapter 13 Quantification of proteins in seaweeds

Carl Safi, Jelle van Leeuwen, Yvette Telleman,

Nicole Engelen-Smit, Lambertus van den Broek,

and Paulien Harmsen

Chapter 14 Comprehensive phytohormone quantification

in the red alga Pyropia yezoensis by liquid

chromatography-mass spectrometry

Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C. Mori, Yoko Ikeda,

Takashi Hirayama, and Koji Mikami

Chapter 15 Total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity

analysis of seaweed biomass

Xiaoru Hou, Randi Neerup, and Anne-Belinda Bjerre

Chapter 16 Extraction of phycocyanin and phycoerythrin pigments

Stewart William Beattie, Michèle Morançais, Paul Déléris,

Joël Fleurence, and Justine Dumay

Chapter 17 Quantification and localization of reactive oxygen

species in marine macrophytes

Manoj Kumar, Loretto Contreras-Porcia, Nirali M. Kumar,

and Peter J. Ralph

Chapter 18 Metabolomics of intra- and extracellular metabolites

from micro- and macroalgae using GC-MS

and LC-MS

Constanze Kuhlisch, Gianmaria Califano, Thomas Wichard,

and Georg Pohnert

Chapter 19 Preparative extraction of exometabolites

from seaweed surfaces

Florian Weinberger

Chapter 20 Disruption-free solid-phase extraction of surface

metabolites from macroalgae

Emilio Cirri and Georg Pohnert

 

Section III: Cellular and molecular characterization

Chapter 21 The immunodetection and in situ imaging of

cell-wall polysaccharides in brown algae

Amandine Siméon, Delphine Duffieux, Cécile Hervé,

Sophie Le Panse, Paul Knox, and Thomas Torode

Chapter 22 Atomic force microscopy based analysis of cell-wall

elasticity in macroalgae

Thomas Torode, Marina Linardic, J. Louis Kaplan,

and Siobhan A. Braybrook

Chapter 23 Dynamic and microscale mapping of cell growth:

Case of Ectocarpus filament cells

Hervé Rabillé, Bernard Billoud, Elodie Rolland,

and Bénédicte Charrier

Chapter 24 Actin fluorescent staining in the filamentous brown

alga Ectocarpus siliculosus

Hervé Rabillé, Maria Koutalianou, Bénédicte Charrier,

and Christos Katsaros

Chapter 25 Cryofixation of brown algae for transmission

electron microscopy

Chikako Nagasato, Christos Katsaros, and Taizo Motomura

Chapter 26 Probing the subcellular topography of

seaweeds: Transmission electron microscopy,

immunocytochemistry, and correlative light

microscopy

Sandra C. Raimundo and David S. Domozych

Chapter 27 Coralline algae preparation for scanning electron

microscopy and optical microscopy

  1. Kaleb, G. Alongi, and A. Falace

Chapter 28 Extraction of high quality RNA from brown algae

for transcriptomic analysis

Sandra Heinrich

Chapter 29 Induction of sexual reproduction in Spirogyra

cultures for laser capture microdissection of gametes

and zygotes

Denis Saint-Marcoux and Jane A. Langdale

Chapter 30 Cloning and expression strategies for the

postgenomic analysis of brown algae

Agnès Groisillier

Chapter 31 Polyethylene glycol-mediated transformation in

the green macroalga Ulva mutabilis (Chlorophyta):

A forward genetics approach

Jens Boesger, Michiel Kwantes, and Thomas Wichard