Introductory Chapters.- 1 The Algae and their General Characteristics.- 2 Algal Plastids: Their Fine Structure and Properties.- 3 The Photosynthetic Apparatus of Chlorophyll b- and d-Containing Oxyphotobacteria.- Molecular Genetics of Algae.- 4 Structure and Regulation of Algal Light-Harvesting Complex Genes.- 5 Functional Analysis of Plastid Genes through Chloroplast Reverse Genetics in Chlamydomonas.- 6 Biochemistry and Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis.- Biochemistry and Physiology of Algae.- 7 Oxygenic Photosynthesis in Algae and Cyanobacteria: Electron Transfer in Photosystems I and II.- 8 Oxygen Consumption: Photorespiration and Chlororespiration.- 9 The Water-Water Cycle in Algae.- 10 Carbohydrate Metabolism and Respiration in Algae.- 11 Carbon Acquisition Mechanisms of Algae: Carbon Dioxide Diffusion and Carbon Dioxide Concentrating Mechanisms.- Light-Harvesting Systems in Algae.- 12 Modeling the Excitation Energy Capture inThylakoid Membranes.- 13 Light-Harvesting Systems in Algae.- 14 Red, Cryptomonad and Glaucocystophyte Algal Phycobiliproteins.- 15 Carotenoids of Light Harvesting Systems: Energy Transfer Processes from Fucoxanthin and Peridinin to Chlorophyll.- General Aspects of Photosynthesis in Algae.- 16 Photoinhibition, UV-B and Algal Photosynthesis.- 17 Adaptation, Acclimation and Regulation in Algal Photosynthesis.- 18 Photosynthesis in Marine Macroalgae.- 19 Photosynthesis in Symbiotic Algae.
