Algae 作者：O P Sharma ISBN：9780070681941 版次：1 年份：2011 出版商：McGraw-Hill 頁數/規格：389頁/平裝單色 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 Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Index