Description
Algae is designed to fulfill the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students of botany. The current trends in the subject are explained in a simple, lucid and understandable writing style. This book, containing a wide variety of topics discussed extensively along with a large number of questions in every chapter, would surely be helpful to students desirous of enhancing their knowledge in botany.
Salient Features
Dedicated chapters providing conceptual prelude to laboratory experiments
Covers practical aspects of phycology
Examination preparation tools
275 chapter-end Review Questions (with their answers at the end of the book)
A detailed Table of Comparison of Principal Characteristics of All Classes of Algae
16 Table of comparison in different chapters
17 Illustrated Life-cycles of Discussed Algal Genera
Rich pedagogy
271 well-labelled line diagrams
16 electron micrographs supplied by top phycologists of the world
Chapter-end questions segregated into
Essay Type
Review Questions
Objective Type Questions
Also available
OP Sharma: Plant Taxonomy 2/e
OP Sharma: Fungi and Allied Microogranisms
NK Soni: Fundamentals of Botany-Volumes I & II
RS Mehrotra: Plant Pathology 2/e
MC Dash: Fundamentals of Ecology 3/e
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. History and Development of Algage
3. Classification of the Algage
4. Algal Occurrence
5. Cytology of Algae
6. Range of Thallus Structure
7. Reproduction in Algae
8. Origin and Evolution of Sex in Algae
9. Life-cycles in Algae
10. Physiology: Inorganic Nutrients, Vitamins and Pheromones in Algae
11. Physiology: Nitrogen Fixation in Algae
12. Physiology: Movements and Rhythm in Algae
13. Cyanophages
14. Ecology of Algae
15. Water Blooms and Red Tides
16. Algae in Water Supplies and as Indicators of Water Pollution
17. Control of Algal Nuisance
18. Toxic Algae
19. Fossil Algae
20. Methods of Algal Study
21. Laboratory Culture and Cooercial Cultivation of Algae
22. Economic Importance of Algae
23. Cyanobacteria or Cyanophyceae or Blue-green Algae
24. Chlorophyceae (Green Algae)
25. Xanthophyceae (yellow-green Algae)
26. Chrysophyceae (Golden-brown Algae)
27. Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms)
28. Cryptophyceae (Cryptomonads)
29. Dinophyceae (Dinoflagellates)
30. Euglenophyceae (Euglenoids)
31. Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae)
32. Rhodophyceae (Red Algae)
33. Glossary