Prospects of biotechnology in seaweed mariculture in India

Kaladharan, P and Gopinathan, C P (2001) Prospects of biotechnology in seaweed mariculture in India. In: Perspectives in Mariculture. The Marine Biological Association of India, Cochin, pp. 381-388.

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Abstract

Red seaweeds are the major source of economically important colloids, agar and carrageenan. Agar industry in India shall become commercially attractive only when the yield of agar from the raw material is enhanced. Inherently most Indian agarophytes contain 10-20% agar only. Though species of Gelidiella and Gelldium contain 35-50% agar and the quality of agar in terms of gel strength is also superior, their biomass production is very less, occurrence is seasonal and their exploitation is difficult. Hence an attempt is underway to obtain a hybrid strain of red seaweed for large scale mariculture between slow growing but high agar containing seaweed and fast growing, poor agar yielders. This article enumerates .the prospective areas of seaweed biotechnology and its immediate relevance to seaweed mariculture and the related industry in India.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	biotechnology; seaweed mariculture
Subjects:	Aquaculture > Mariculture Algae > Seaweed
Divisions:	CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
Depositing User:	Mr. Arun Surendran
Date Deposited:	19 Aug 2010 08:53
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2015 15:17
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/2459

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