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STUDIES ON RHODOPHYTA DIVISION Rhodophyceae Monopodial type Fountain type FLORIDEOPHYCIDAE THALLUS STRUCTURE Openly Branching Filaments Fleshy and Foliose Erect Thalli Encrusting Thalli Calcreous Erect Thalli Fleshy and Foliose Erect Thalli Pseudoparenchymatous algae attach by holdfasts. System of cylindrical branches, hollow tubes. Cross section of thallus shows central axial filaments and lateral branches. Encrusting Thalli Calcareous Erect Thalli Thallus has distinct calcified segments that alternate with uncalcified joints. Absence of flagella and centrioles. Cellulosic cell wall and mucopolysaccharides agar and carrageenan are present. Floridean starch as a storage product. Chlorophyll a, d, Phycoerythrin, phycocyanin, and allophycocyanin as accessory pigments. PIT PLUGS In Floridean and some bangean reds, there is a large lenticular plug between cells. The pit has a central protein core surrounded by caps. TYPICAL LIFE CYCLES FLORIDEOPHYCIDAE Floridean red algae have 3 phases Free-living gametophytic phase Carposporophytes developing on gametophytes Free-living tetrasporophytic phase LIFE CYCLE OF FLORIDEOPHYCIDAE LIFE CYCLES OF BANGIOPHYCIDAE Solitary cells Multicellular thalli Absence of tetrasporophytic and carposoprohytic phases * * Florideophycidae Bangiophycidae Hoek et al. (1995) Porphyridiales Acrochaetiales Bangiales Gigartinales Ceramiales Bangia Porphyra Gracilaria STRUCTURE Openly Branching Filaments Hildenbrandia Corallina Cylindric Foliose BANGIOPHYCIDAE THALLUS STRUCTURE ULTRASTRUCTURE SJ Wang NUCLEAR CHROMOSOME punily Chondrus N=30 (Magne 1964); N=32-35 (Hanic 1973) Gelidium N=10 (Kapraun et al. 1989); N=25 (Maggs unpublished) Gracilaria N=24 or N=30-32 (Bird et al. 1990; Rice et al. 1990) Porphyra N=3 or N=5 (Ishkawa 1921; Tseng and Sun 1989) SEX Bisexual Unisexual Bisexual Unisexual Unisexual Bisexual REPRODUCTION Vegetative reproduction (Drew 1956) Asexual reproduction