Special Issue in Frontiers in Plant Science

A complete new issue, about Macroalgal development and morphogenesis, has been published in 2014 in "FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, section Plant Evolution & Development".

15 articles  published.

See authors, abstract and link to open access publications here:

• The green seaweed Ulva: a model system to study morphogenesis
• Localization of causal locus in the genome of the brown macroalga Ectocarpus: NGS-based mapping and positional cloning approaches
• Exploring bacteria-induced growth and morphogenesis in the green macroalga order Ulvales (Chlorophyta)
• On reproduction in red algae: further research needed at the molecular level
• Production of genetically and developmentally modified seaweeds: exploiting the potential of artificial selection techniques
• Plant architecture without multicellularity: quandaries over patterning and the soma-germline divide in siphonous algae
• Laser capture microdissection in Ectocarpus siliculosus: the pathway to cell-specific transcriptomics in brown algae
• Understanding “green” multicellularity: do seaweeds hold the key?
• Polyamines in morphogenesis and development: a promising research area in seaweeds
• Photopolarization of Fucus zygotes is determined by time sensitive vectorial addition of environmental cues during axis amplification
• Regulation of gametogenesis and zoosporogenesis in Ulva linza (Chlorophyta): comparison with Ulva mutabilis and potential for laboratory culture
• Development and Characterization of Somatic Hybrids of Ulva reticulata Forsskål (×) Monostroma oxyspermum (Kutz.)Doty
• Rac1 signaling in the establishment of the fucoid algal body plan
• Multicellularity in green algae: upsizing in a walled complex
• A technical breakthrough close at hand: feasible approaches toward establishing a gene-targeting genetic transformation system in seaweeds