Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Role of Algae in Agriculture
Christos Chatzissavvidis and Ioannis Therios (Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, and Laboratory of Pomology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Chapter 2. An Illustrated Review on Cultivation and Life History of Agronomically Important Seaplants
Felix Bast (Centre for Biosciences, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India)
Chapter 3. Seaweed Uses: Human Health and Agriculture
Maha Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah (National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Marine Pollution Lab, Alexandria, Egypt)
Chapter 4. Scientific Evidences of the Health-Promoting Effect of Seaweed Intake in Humans
Antonio Jiménez-Escrig (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Chapter 5. Evaluation of Bioactive Compounds in Seaweeds: A Review
Julia López-Hernández and Ana Rodríguez-Bernaldo de Quirós (Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Science University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, A Coruña, Spain)
Chapter 6. Population Studies and Carrageenan Properties in Eight Gigartinales (Rhodophyta) from Iberian Peninsula
Leonel Pereira, Filipa Meireles and Rui Gaspar (IMAR-CMA (Institute of Marine Research), Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
Chapter 7. d-Amino Acids and Amino Acid Racemases in Seaweeds
Takehiko Yokoyama and Koji Mikami (School of Fisheries Sciences, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, and Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan)
Chapter 8. Seaweed Polyphenols As Potential Anti-Oxidant Agents
Rashmi Chandrakant Vinayak and Vasanth L. Kallapur (Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka State, India)
Chapter 9. Antioxidant Sulfated Polysaccharides from Seaweed
Mariana Santana Santos Pereira Costa, Gabriel Pereira Fidelis, Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Rocha and Leandro Silva Costa (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte – IFRN, and Departamento de Bioquimica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN, Brazil)
Index
