Book Description:
The marine red macroalga Porphyra yezoensis is an important marine crop, particularly in Asian countries for the production of “Nori”. This book presents the latest research using P. yezoensis in order to share valuable information necessary for the progress of red algal research. The topics covered focus on developmental regulation, gene expression analyses of nuclear and chloroplast genomes, breeding, basic and applied studies of foreign gene expression, and functional materials. Each topic is reviewed by Japanese experts, including botanists including phycologists, cell biologists, molecular biologists and biotechnologists. (Imprint: Nova Press)

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1. Porphyra: Model Plants in Marine Sciences
(Naotsune Saga, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University,
Japan) pp.1-14

Chapter 2. Monospore-Based Asexual Life Cycle in Porphyra yezoensis
(Koji Mikami, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan; Lin Li, Megumu Takahashi, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan) pp.15-38

Chapter 3. Chloroplast Transcription Machinery of Red Algae: Conservation of Four Types of Transcriptional Regulators in Non-Green Chloroplasts
(Kan Tanaka, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University,
Japan) pp.39-60

Chapter 4. Retrotransposons in Porphyra yezoensis
(Susumu Takio, Center for Marine Environment Studies, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Japan) pp.61-80

Chapter 5. Collection, Analysis, and Utilization of Porphyra yezoensis Expressed Sequence Tags
(Erika Asamizu, Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Yukihiro Kitade, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Japan; Satoshi Tabata, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan) pp.81-92

Chapter 6. Transient Gene Expression System in Porphyra yezoensis: Establishment, Application and Limitation
(Koji Mikami, Toshiki Uji, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan) pp.93-118

Chapter 7. Heavy-Ion Beam Mutagenesis in Porphyra yezoensis
(Kyosuke Niwa, Fisheries Technology Institute, Hyogo Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
Akashi, Hyogo, Japan; Tomoko Abe, RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan) pp.119-132

Chapter 8. Protoplast Isolation from Porphyra and the Cell Wall-Degrading Enzymes
(Toshiyoshi Araki, Yoshiaki Umemoto, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Japan) pp.133-160

Chapter 9. Biotechnological Application of Porphyra yezoensis Genes
(Tadatake Oku, Hirotaka Chida, Hideharu Akazaki, Shin-ichiro Yamamoto, Kazufusa Shinomiya, Hidetoshi Sakurai and Nihon University,
Japan) pp.161-180

Chapter 10. Nutritional and Physiological Functions of Porphyra (Tatsuya Sugawara, Shota Sakai, Takashi Hirata, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan) pp.181-194

Index pp.195-205