There is a great demand for algal cultures in studying morphology, cytology, ecology, cellular pathology and physiology, identification of species, and biotic interaction, and also in feeding small animals in culture for various studies. It is hoped that the following note may be of some use to those who want to start making pure cultures of marine. phytoplankton organisms. Bacteria-free cultur...

Problem statement: Al-Khadoud spring is one of the most important water resources in AlHassa Governorate, Saudi Arabia. However, much of its biotic information is still unknown. This study presented preliminary ecological information of this aquatic body. The aim of this research was to study the water characteristics and the planktonic organisms inhibiting Al-Khadoud spring and its irrigationa...

Approximately 450–500 million years ago, an ancient freshwater green alga successfully colonized land. From this profoundly important event in our planet's natural history, the spectacular diversity of plants that now occupy most of our terrestrial ecosystems arose. Essentially, the planet's atmosphere and biogeochemistry dramatically changed to yield conditions that support our biota. Land pla...

The Streptophyta comprises all land plants and six main lineages of freshwater green algae: Mesostigmatophyceae, Chlorokybophyceae, Klebsormidiophyceae, Charophyceae, Coleochaetophyceae and Zygnematophyceae. Previous comparisons of the chloroplast genome from nine streptophyte algae (including four zygnematophyceans) revealed that, although land plant chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs) inherited most of...

We recognize organisms first and foremost by their forms, but how they grow and shape themselves still largely passes understanding. The objective of this article is to survey what has been learned of morphogenesis of walled eucaryotic microorganisms as a set of problems in cellular heredity, biochemistry, physiology, and organization. Despite the diversity of microbial forms and habits, some c...

The generation of radioactive waste and/or environmental radioactive contamination is a common side effect of activities such as nuclear power generation, medical use of radioisotopes, nuclear weapons testing, and occasionally disasters such as Chernobyl. The subsequent decontamination of waste or the environment requires the nontrivial ability to selectively separate and remove harmful radiois...

Strontium-90 is a radioactive by-product of fission reactions within nuclear reactors that generate electricity. About 3% of the mass of spent nuclear fuel consists of fission products including strontium-90. Because of its high decay energy and its long half-life of 30 years—it takes hundreds of years to decay naturally to harmless levels—strontium-90 is classified a high-level waste. Strontiu...