
Algal Culturing Techniques
Description
Key Features
- Sponsored by the Phycological Society of America
- Features color photographs and illustrations throughout
- Describes culturing methods ranging from the test tube to outdoor ponds and coastal seaweed farms
- Details isolation techniques ranging from traditional micropipette to automated flow cytometeric methods
- Includes purification, growth, maintenance, and cryopreservation techniques
- Highlights methods for estimating algal populations, growth rates, isolating and measuring algal pigments, and detecting and culturing algal viruses
- Features a comprehensive appendix of nearly 50 algal culture medium recipes
- Includes a glossary of phycological terms
Readership
Table of Contents
- Contributors
Preface
1. Historical Review of Algal Culturing Techniques
2. Freshwater Culture Media
3. Marine Culture Media
4. Trace Metal Ion Buffers and Their Use in Culture Studies
5. Sterilization and Sterile Technique
6. Traditional Microalgae Isolation Techniques
7. Automated Isolation Techniques for Microalgae
8. Purification Methods for Microalgae
9. Isolation and Purification Techniques for Macroalgae
10. Perpetual Maintenance of Actively Metabolizing Microalgal Cultures
11. Long Term Macroalgal Culture Maintenance
12. Cryopreservation Methods for Maintaining Microalgal Cultures
13. Photobioreactors and Fermentors: The Light and Dark Sides of Growing Algae
14. Culturing Microalgae in Outdoor Ponds
15. Mariculture of Seaweeds
16. Counting Cells in Culture Using the Light Microscope
17. Phytoplankton Cell Counting by Flow Cytometry
18. Measuring Growth Rates in Microalgal Cultures
19. Using Cultures to Investigate the Physiological Ecology of Microalgae
20. Analysis of Algal Pigments by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
21. Endogenous Rhythms and Daylength Effects in Macroalgal Development
22. Viral Contamination of Algal Cultures
23. Control of Sexual Reproduction in Algae in Culture
24. Microalgal Life Cycle Dynamics: Encystment and Excystment
25. Cultures as a Means of Protecting Biological Resources: Ex-situ Conservation of Threatened Algal Species
Appendix A: Recipies for Freshwater and Seawater Media
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 592
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2005
- Published: December 10, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080456508
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780120884261
About the Editor
Robert A. Andersen
Ratings and Reviews
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NIKOLAOSVLACHOS Fri Dec 27 2019
Very comprehensive yet readable
This book seems to cover all the bases of algae culture, yet is quite easilly understood by a newcomer to phycology such as myself. I found the descriptions of practical procedure very valuable and well explained/illustrated. The material is often accompanied by historical background of the procedures and algae know-how discussed, making it a more interesting read but also giving a better appreciation of difficulty and/or significance.