Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the transport systems in algae and bryophytes. Giant-celled algae were of great importance in developing many techniques for the study of (and the hypotheses of the mechanism of) membrane transport in plants and in biological material in general. They, as well as smaller-celled algae and bryophytes, will prove useful in the analyses of general membrane transport phenomena as well as of specifically plant processes. Further advances in the use of algae and bryophytes in general membrane transport studies require that their demonstrated utility in relation to perfusion, voltage-clamp, and (radio) chemical tracer studies be integrated with the genetic, biochemical, and patch-clamp techniques developed for other groups of organisms. Such integration would also greatly benefit the studies of membrane transport in algae and bryophytes in relation to studies of the structure, physiology, and ecology of the organisms.
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