The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 17, 817-842,
Copyright © 1934 by The Rockefeller University Press
MANOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN THE MARINE ALGA GIGARTINA
Robert Emerson 1 and
Lowell Green 1
1 From the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, and the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
A manometric method for measuring photosynthesis in marine algae is described.
Photosynthesis in the red alga Gigartina harveyana is shown to be similar in all important respects to photosynthesis in Chlorella and other Chlorophyceae.
Accepted on February 16, 1934