Seaweeds are not used as much for edible use although many kinds of seaweed are collected in Sri Lanka.The objective of this study was to develop high quality bread using seaweed,Kappaphycus alvarezii collected from S...
The study was conducted to determine the effects of different positions in cultivation lines towards the direction of water current on growth rate of Kappaphycus striatum var. cottonii for a duration of 45 d at 4°30...
Aquaculture industry is often generating waste that negatively impact to the environment. These wastes are rich in nutrients. Seaweed can utilize these waste nutrients. This experiment was conducted in a flow-through ...
A sauna drying technique—the solar drier was designed and imposed, constructed and tested for drying of seaweed. The seaweed moisture content was decreased around 50% in 2-day sauna. Kinetic curves of drying of seawe...
Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China under contract No. 2008G19
Due to morphological plasticity and paucity of diagnostic morphological characters, the taxonomy of Kap- paphycus gets more and more confused with the expanding of commercial cultivation. In this study, the phylogenet...
Supported by the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan Project(No.05PJ14086);Shanghai Excellent Academic Leaders Project(No.08XD14037);Shanghai Hydrobiology Key Disciplines Funded Projects(No.S30701)
The systematic classification of the Eucheumatoideae is difficult because of their variable morphology and interpretation of reproductive structures. Kappaphycus and Eucheuma specimens cultivated on the Hainan and Fuj...