Zostera marina

Brix, H. and J.E. Lyngby. 1982. The distribution of cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.). Sci. Total Environ. 24 51-63. 

Lyngby, J.E., H. Brix, and H.H. Schierup. 1982. Absorption and translocation of zinc in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.). Jour. Exper. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 58 259-270. 

The composition and amount of pigments in marine environments have also been vigorously investigated. Thus, on RP-HPLC method has been developed for the study of the effect of variable irradiance on the xanthophyll cycle of the seagrass Zostera marina. Extraction of pigments from seagrass was carried out by grinding the samples with acid-washed sand in the presence of 1 ml of 90 per cent acetone and the liquid phase was... 

P.J. Ralph, S.M. Polk, K.A. Moore, R.J. Orth and W.O. Smith, Jr, Operation of the xanthophyll cycle in the seagrass Zostera marina in responese to variable irradiance. J. Exp. Marine Biol. Ecol. 271 (2002) 189-207. 

Cobalt in Nutrition. Johan Georg Forchhammer found in his great research on the composition of sea water that marine organisms concentrate the substances necessary for their existence and thus provide the chemist with a delicate indirect means of detecting certain elements which occur in sea water in very minute amounts. He discovered cobalt, for example, in the ashes of Zostera marina and in the fossil sponges of the chalk (123). 

Boron in Plants and Animals. When I had convinced myself, said Forchhammer, that boracic acid occurred m sea water, it appeared to me in the highest degree probable that the organisms of the sea would collect it, and that it might be found in their ashes. I was so fortunate as to begin my experiments with a plant that contained it in a rather large quantity, viz. the Zostera marina.. . . Even Fucus vesiculosus contains the same acid, but in a much smaller quantity (123)... 

In 1825 A.-J. Balard detected iodine in various marine mollusks, bare or testacean, such as the dons, the venus, oysters, etc. several corals and marine plants, the gorgonia, the zostera marina, etc., and especially in the mother liquor of the salt works supplied by the Mediterranean ... 

The first report, by Bell and coworkers61, identifying D-apiose as a component of a molecule other than a flavonoid glycoside was important for three reasons. (I) It was the first time that D-apiose had been described as a component of a polysaccharide, (2) the useful and widely emulated preparation of the di-O-isopropylidene derivative was detailed, and (3) a theory equating the recalcitrance of Posidonia australis and Zostera marina to microbial decay with the presence of some derivative of D-apiose was proposed. Subsequently, the presence of apiose in the polysaccharides of a large number of plants has been reported. 

Harrison, P.G. and Chan, A.T., 1980. Inhibition of the growth of microalgae and bacteria by extracts of eelgrass, (Zostera marina) leaves. Mar. Biol., 61 21-26. 

Kikuchi, T., 1979. 3apane e contributions on consumer ecology in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) beds, with special reference to trophic relations and resources in inshore fisheries. Aquaculture, 9 195-160. 

McConnaughey, T. and McRoy, C.P., 1979. l C label identifies eelgrass (Zostera marina) carbon in an Alaskan estuarine food web. Mar. Biol., 53 263-269. 

Rasmussen, E., 1977. The wasting disease of eelgrass (Zostera marina) and its effects on environmental factors and fauna. In C.P. McRoy and C. Hellfferich (eds), Seagrass Ecosystems A Scientific Perspective. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 1-51. 

Tenore, K.R., Tietjen, 3.H. and Lee, 3.3., 1977. Effect of ineiofauna on incorporation of aged eelgrass, Zostera marina detritus by the polychaete Nephtys incisa. 3. Fish. Res. Board Can., 35 563-567. 

Quackenbush, R. C., D. Bunn, and W. Lingren. 1986. HPLC determination of phenolic acids in the water-soluble extract of Zostera marina L. (eelgrass). Aquatic Botany 24 83—89. 

Kaldy, J.E. 2006. Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and heavy metal budgets How large is the eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) sink in a temperate estuary Mar. Pollut. Bull. 52 332-356. 

Harrison, P. G., Control of microbial growth and amphipod grazing by water-soluble compounds from leaves of Zostera marina, Mar. Biol., 67, 225, 1982. 

Bach, S.D., Thayer, GW., and Lacroix, M.W. (1986) Export of detritus from eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds near Beaufort, North Carolina, USA. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 28, 265-278. 

Caffrey, J.M., and Kemp, W.M. (1990) Nitrogen cycling in sediments with estuarine populations of Potamogeton perfoliatus and Zostera marina. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 66, 147-160. 

Dennison, W.C., and Alberte, R.A. (1982) Photosynthetic responses of Zostera marina L. (eelgrass) to in situ manipulations of light intensity. Oecologia 55, 137-144. 

Drake, L.A., Dobbs, F.C., and Zimmerman, R.C. (2003) Effects of epiphyte load on optical properties and photosynthetic potential of the seagrasses Thalassia testudinum Banks ex Konig and Zostera marina L. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48, 456-463. 

Roman, C.T., and Able, K.W. (1988) Production ecology of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in a Cape Cod salt marsh estuarine system, Massachusetts. Aquat. Bot. 32, 353-363. 

McGlathery, K. J., Risgaard-Petersen, N., and Christensen, P. B. (1998). Temporal and spatial variation in nitrogen fixation activity in the eelgrass Zostera marina rhizosphere. Mar. Ecol. Prog. 

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