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Part I
1 Macroalgal Functional Genomics: A Missing Area ............................
3
Vishal Gupta, Mukesh Jain, and C.R.K. Reddy
2 Tolerance Pathways to Desiccation Stress in Seaweeds ......................
13
Loretto Contreras-Porcia, Camilo López-Cristoffanini,
Andrés Meynard, and Manoj Kumar
3 Marine Metal Pollution and Effects on Seaweed Species ...................
35
Loretto Contreras-Porcia, Andrés Meynard,
Camilo López-Cristoffanini, Nicolas Latorre, and Manoj Kumar
4 Seaweed Lipidomics in the Era of ‘Omics’ Biology:
A Contemporary Perspective ................................................................
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Puja Kumari
5 Volatiles in the Aquatic Marine Ecosystem: Ethylene
and Related Plant Hormones and Sporulation in Red Seaweeds ......
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P. Garcia-Jimenez and R.R. Robaina
Part II
6 Abiotic Stress of Seagrasses: Recent Advances
in Transcriptomics, Genomics, and Systems Biology ......................... 119
E.E. Malandrakis, T. Danis, A. Iona, and A. Exadactylos
7 Photobiology of Seagrasses: A Systems Biology Perspective ............. 133
Pimchanok Buapet
8 Systems Biology and the Seagrass Paradox: Adaptation,
Acclimation, and Survival of Marine Angiosperms
in a Changing Ocean Climate ............................................................... 167
Richard C. Zimmerman
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