Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium

Cultivation. - Advances in seaweed aquaculture among Pacific Island countries. - Experimental tank cultivation of Porphyra in Israel. - Rapid survey technique using socio-economic indicators to assess the suitability of Pacific Island rural communities for Kappaphycus seaweed farming development. - Artificial seed production and cultivation of the edible brown alga, Sargassum fulvellum (Turner) C. Agardh: Developing a new species for seaweed cultivation in Korea. - Farming of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera in southern Chile for development of novel food products. - Effects of temperature and salinity on the growth of Gracilaria verrucosa and G. chorda, with the potential for mariculture in Korea. - Developmental studies in Porphyra vietnamensis: A high-temperature resistant species from the Indian Coast. - Spore adhesion and cell wall formation in Gelidium floridanum (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales). - Forecasting infections of the red rot disease on Porphyra yezoensis Ueda (Rhodophyta) cultivation farms. - Occurrence of Polysiphonia epiphytes in Kappaphycus farms at Calaguas Is. , Camarines Norte, Phillippines. - Culture of Gigartina skottsbergii (Rhodophyta) in southern Chile. A pilot scale approach. - Can kelp extract (KELPAK®) be useful in seaweed mariculture? . - Harvesting. - A remote sensing approach to estimating harvestable kelp biomass. - The effects of harvesting of the South African kelp (Ecklonia maxima) on kelp population structure, growth rate and recruitment. - Harvesting of the kelp Ecklonia maxima in South Africa affects its three obligate, red algal epiphytes. - Changes in the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol. plant morphology and biomass produced by cutter rake harvests in southern New Brunswick, Canada. - Hydrocolloids. - Carrageenans from cystocarpic andsterile plants of Chondrus pinnulatus (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) collected from the Russian Pacific coast. - A comparative study of specificity of fucoidanases from marine microorganisms and invertebrates. - Comparative characterization of laminarinases from the filamentous marine fungi Chaetomium indicum Corda and Trichoderma aureviride Rifai. - Biochemistry & Utilization. - Seasonal variation in the chemical composition of tropical Australian marine macroalgae. - Tissue nitrogen and phosphorus in seaweeds in a tropical eutrophic environment: What a long-term study tells us. - Element concentrations in some species of seaweeds from La Paz Bay and La Paz Lagoon, south-western Baja California, Mexico. - Formation of aldehyde flavor (n-hexanal, 3Z-nonenal and 2E-nonenal) in the brown alga, Laminaria angustata. - Antimicrobial browning-inhibitory effect of flavor compounds in seaweeds. - Effect of detachment on the palatability of two kelp species. - A comparison of various seaweed-based diets and formulated feed on growth rate of abalone in a land-based aquaculture system. - A simple 96-well microplate method for estimation of total polyphenol content in seaweeds. - Physiology. - Effects of UVB radiation on the initial stages of growth of Gigartina skottsbergii, Sarcothalia crispata and Mazzaella laminarioides (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). - Photosynthesis and UV-B tolerance of the marine alga Fucus vesiculosus at different sea water salinities. - Effects of environmental factors and metal ions on growth of the red alga Gracilaria chorda Holmes (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta). - Genomics & Molecular Genetics. - A genomic and phylogenetic perspective on endosymbiosis and algal origin. - Isolation of pollutant (pine needle ash)-responding genes from tissues of the seaweed Ulva pertusa. - Isolation and identification of gametogenesis-related genes in Porphyra yezoensis (Rhodophyta) using subtracted cDNA libraries. - Kelp Ecology & Global Environmental Change. - Molecular systematics and phylogenetics of Gracilariacean species from the Mediterranean Sea. - Long term variability in the structure of kelp communities in northern Chile and the 1997 98 ENSO. - Recent fluctuations in distribution and biomass of cold and warm temperature species of Laminarialean algae at Cape Ohma, northern Honshu, Japan. - Ecology. - Introduced macroalgae A growing concern. - Time-space characterization of commercial seaweed species from the Gulf of California using a geographical information system. - Phenology of Chondrus ocellatus in Cheongsapo near Busan, Korea. - Seasonality pattern of biomass accumulation in a drifting Furcellaria lumbricalis community in the waters of the West Estonian Archipelago, Baltic Sea. - Factors influencing the growth rates of three commercial eucheumoids at coastal sites in southern Kenya. - Reproduction strategies of Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyta) in Southern Chile: The importance of population dynamics. - Group recruitment and early survival of Mazzaella laminarioides. - Distribution and recent reduction of Gelidium beds in Toyama Bay, Japan. - Overgrazing of kelp beds along the coast of Norway. - Seasonal occurrences of epiphytic algae on the commercially cultivated red alga Kappaphycus alvarezii (Solieriaceae, Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). - The role of encrusting coralline algae in the diets of selected intertidal herbivores. - Phenology of Sargassum spp. in Tung Ping Chau Marine Park, Hong Kong SAR, China. - Biogeography of Alaskan seaweeds. - Systematics, Taxonomy & Phylogeny. - Systematics and genetic variation in commercial Kappaphycus and Eucheuma(Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta). - Phylogenetic diversity of New Zealand Gelidiales as revealed by rbcL sequence data. - Taxonomic considerations of a foliose Grateloupia species from the Straits of Messina. - Observations on flattened species of Gracilaria (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta) from Taiwan. - Phylogenetic re-evaluation of the Laurencia complex (Rhodophyta) with a description of L. succulenta sp. nov. from Korea.