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From the Contents: Lectures and Controversal Discussion (The advancesof tissue and cell culture in marine seaweeds, X-W.Liu/ Applications ofprotoplast isolation in basic and applied phycology, B.Kloareg, H.Benet& Y.Gall/ Protoplasts and somatic hybridization, N.Saga/ Axenic culturesof seaweed tissues: an appraisal, M.A.Lipperheide & L.V.Evans/ A casefor non-axenic algal cultures, M.I.Tait/ DNA-DNA hybridization: singlecopy DNA distance beween Cladophoropsis membranacea isolates, W.H.C.F.Kooistra, S.A.Boele-Bos, W.T.Stam & C. van den Hoeck/ Biolistics:potential application to seaweed improvement, I.Levy/ Geneticimprovement of Laminaria japonica through strain selection, Z.C.Wen &M.Pedersen/ Algal pathology, J.A.Correa & J.S.Craigie/ etc.)/Methodological Articles (Extraction and purification of enzymes fromdigestive tracts of phycophages. Quantification of specific enzymaticactivities, J.L.Gomez-Pinchetti & G.Garcia-Reina/ A new volumetricmethod for photosynthetic and respiratory activity determination ofmacroalgae, R.J.Haroun/ Carrageenase production in a culture ofPseudomonas carrageenovora growing on kappa-carrageenan, S.H.Knutsen/Procedures for protoplast isolation from red seaweeds. Demonstrationon Gracilaria sordida and G. tenuistipitata, M.Bjoerk & M.Pedersen/Isolation of protoplasts from brown seaweeds, H.Benet & B.Kloareg/Embedding of protoplasts from Gracilaria tenuistipitata in agarosedroplets, M.Bjoerk/ Isolation of protoplast from green seaweeds andprotoplast fusion, N.Saga/ etc.).