Production and Characteristics of Protoplasts in Green Sea Algae Capsosiphon fulvescens

The potential application of protoplasts useful for studies such as physiology, morphology, genetic engineering, etc has led to the development of suitable methologies for isolation and manupilation of protoplasts from a wide variety of algae (Waaland et al., 1990; Reddy and Fujita, 1991; Chen and Chiang, 1994). Protoplasts technology to seaweeds depends large on the ability to produce viable cells capable of regenerating into whole plantlets (Wakabayashi et al., 1999). Though Capsosiphon fulvescens is one of the important economic seaweeds culturing in Korea, surprisingly protoplasts approach on this species has not been reported so far. Consequently we investigated the various aspects related to the protoplasts of Capsosiphon fulvescens in this study. (omitted)