UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN MARINE SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester IV - Paper V - Applied Marine Botany

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Marine Algal Physiology: Light relationships - Temperature relationships - Response to osmotic changes - Response to pH - Mineral nutrition - Trace elements, Micronutrients and growth factors.

Unit II

Utilization of Marine Algae: Marine algae as food, fodder, fertiliser and source of medicine and industrial raw material.

Unit III

Cultivation of Algae: Cultivation of Unicellular organisms for single cell proteins on large scale using Dunaliella, Scenedesnus and Spirulina - Mass cultivation of sea weeds such as Gracilaria, Ulva, Porphyra in marine environment by Net cultivation method

Unit IV

Marine Products of economic importance: Agar-agar, Carragenin, Kiesulguhr, Algin, Laminarin, Phycocolloids.

Unit V

Commercialisation and cultivation - Use of cost effective innovative methods - Economic upliftment of local population - Conservation of natural resources - Conservation of ecosystem.

Books Recommended

The biology of Algae by F.E. Round, Arnold Publishers, London, 1965.

Marine Botany by E.Yale Dawson, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, inc, 1966.

Structure and Reproduction of Algae Vol. I & II by FE. Fritsch, Cambridge University Press, 1935.

Physiology & Biochemistry of Algae by R.A. Lewin, Academic Press, New York, 1962.

Smith, G.M. 1965. Cryptogamic Botany, Vol. I Algae & Fungi, McGraw Hill, New York, 1965.