Talk:Botany/Phycology

My botany professor used the story of how Dr. Kathleen Drew discovered the oyster burrowing diploid life cycle of Nori- which helped seaweed farmers to increase production of the haploid nori. This whole story was to help us understand alternation of generations. It's kinda good because it starts with the assumption that the plant has a simpler life cycle and the story discovers alternation of generations and explains it.


 * Can you write it up?

Also, the article on Nori in wikipedia says that some edible seaweed products incorportate blue green algae- how can that be true?


 * It is true that some blue-greens are grown in aquaculture to produce a number of products, perhaps best known being a food supplement known as Spirolina. There a very few cyanobacteria regarded even marginally as "seaweeds", and none I'm aware of are worth eating, so I'm not sure what the statement is alluding to. - marsh 17:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)