There are a good number of Filipino seaweed farmers and entrepreneurs who have focused efforts and invested money in farming Eucheuma and Kappaphycus. These red sea vegetables, produced mainly in ...

Orono, Me-- Sequencing of the nuclear genome of Porphyra umbilicalis-- laver or Atlantic nori-- has revealed insights into how the bangiophyte red algae have thrived for over a billion years in the ...

Fishermen in Xiapu county, Fujian province are busy harvesting porphyra, a kind of edible seaweed commonly known as "Zicai" in China, this month. Situated in the northeastern part of the coastal ...

The red algae called Porphyra and its ancestors have thrived for millions of years in the harsh habitat of the intertidal zone -- exposed to fluctuating temperatures, high UV radiation, severe salt ...

I love seaweed. Maybe it’s because I am from California and we are all plant loving hippies or maybe it’s because they’re the underappreciated overlords of the sea and I respect that. Seriously though ...

Adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate sulfotransferase (APSSTase) was purified over 2700-fold to homogeneity from the thalli of the marine macroalga Porphyra yezoensis Ueda (Rhodophyta), using a combination of ...

Genes picked up from a microbial hitch-hiker may enable some Japanese individuals to extract otherwise intractable nutrients from seaweed. Although gene transfer to gut microbes is suspected in other ...

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