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Tag - algae
Nigel Chaffey
Half measures don’t work when restoring marine forests
Would you recognise a desert if it was covered in water? What I mean by that is if somewhere that should be covered in forest were barren and empty, would you notice? A paper in PLOS One outlines why it matters...
Alun Salt
Mutualistic ants contribute to bromeliad nutrition
It is more advantageous for some bromeliads to obtain ant-derived nutrients via its roots than to eat them.
AJ Cann
Is pink your favourite colour? How about gold?
Astaxanthin is nearly as expensive as gold. Unless you grow it in a pond.
Algae found under teenager’s bed…
17 year old Sara Volz wins $100 000 scholarship from Intel Science Talent Search for her experiment on algae that she kept under her bed.
Because they’re not red(!)
Although red algae contain green chlorophyll, their red coloration is a result of large amounts of non-green pigments such as phycoerythrin.
Free paper — Estimates of nuclear DNA content in red algal lineages
This paper compiles and discusses all currently available nuclear genome size data for red algae in relation to their most recent taxonomic classification.
Lulu Stader
Algal cell walls and their diversity: a PhD position
Zoë Popper, an Annals of Botany Editor, has a funded PhD position to characterise algal cell walls and make cell wall-directed monoclonal antibodies, using biochemical analysis and immunocytochemistry. The project will...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison