Turgor regulation in salt-tolerant charophyte Lamprothamnium papulosum

Supported by:

Large ARC grants 1996-98 and 1999-2001

Small ARC grants (1996, 2001)

The VC's Strategic Development Fund Goldstar Maintenance (2002)

Publications
• Dual turgor regulation in response to hypotonic stress in Lamprothamnium papulosum

• Ecophysiology of the hypotonic response in the salt-tolerant alga Lamprothamnium papulosum



• Degradation of extracellular mucilage with heparinase transforms the response to hypotonic challenge in Lamprothamnium papulosum

• Modelling the current-voltage characteristics of charophyte membranes

  II. The effect of salinity on membranes of Lamprothamnium papulosum

• Modelling the current-voltage characteristics of charophyte membranes III. K⁺ state of Lamprothamnium

• PMB Presentation

• Beilby MJ and Shepherd VA (2006) The characteristics of Ca⁺⁺- activated Cl^-channels of salt-tolerant charophyte Lamprothamnium. Plant Cell Environment 29: 764-777

• Beilby MJ, Bisson MA and Shepherd VA (2006) Electrophysiology of turgor regulation in charophyte cells. Commissioned review for "Plant Electrophysiology - Theory and Methods" edited by AG Volkov, pp 375-406, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York

• Beilby MJ and Shepherd VA (2006) The electrophysiology of salt tolerance in charophytes. Cryptogamie Algologie 27: 403 - 417

• Al Khazaaly S and Beilby MJ (2007) Modelling ion transporters at the time of hypertonic regulation in Lamprothamnium succinctum. Charophytes 1: 28 - 47