Abstract
The marine red seaweed Pyropia yezoensis exhibits phototropic responses in gametophyte and conchosporangia phases, but not in sporophytes. These responses are easily monitored with a simple culturing box that has one side open to allow for unilateral light irradiation within an incubator. Confirmation of phototropic responses is achieved by changing the direction of unilateral light irradiation via rotation of the culture dishes clockwise 90°.
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We are grateful to the Marine Resources Research Center, Aichi Fisheries Research Institute for kindly providing P. yezoensis strain U-51. This work was supported in part by KAKENHI (15H04539).
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Takahashi, M., Mikami, K. (2019). A Simple Procedure to Observe Phototropic Responses in the Red Seaweed Pyropia yezoensis. In: Yamamoto, K. (eds) Phototropism. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1924. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9015-3_9
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