Abstract
Work on algae has had wide‐ranging impacts on our understanding of membrane function. Work on giant cells of freshwater and marine algae has been very important in defining and characterizing active transport systems for ions and other solutes and for studying other transport processes at the plasmalemma and tonoplast. Such work was particularly important in changing the focus of studies of higher plant membrane transport processes in the 1960s. Recent technical and genetic advances mean that studies formerly confined to large algal cells can now also be performed on higher plants and microalgae, but work on giant cells still makes important contributions. Studies on fucoid embryos continues to make significant contributions to our understanding of the role of transmembrane calcium fluxes in early development. This work has wide‐ranging implications for the development of other organisms.
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