Supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program (No. 2008BAC49B01);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2010CB428705);the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40821004)
From 2007 to 2009, large-scale blooms of green algae (the so-called "green tides") occurred every summer in the Yellow Sea, China. In June 2008, huge amounts of floating green algae accumulated along the coast of Qing...