The seaweed industry worldwide uses 7.5–8.0 million tonnes of wet seaweeds annually with
a majority of it derived from cultivated farms, as the demand for seaweed based-products …

Over the last 15 years an increasing number of studies have dealt with seaweed tissue
culture, following the success achieved using these techniques in higher plants. Most …

Table 1. FAO figures for world farmed seaweed and Spirulina production in 2004. 12 Table
2. Annual production in metric ton dry weight of the main farmed seaweed genera by country …

Cultivation of seaweeds on a commercial scale requires a large number of propagules with
desirable phenotypic traits which include high growth rates and resistance to diseases …

Seaweed tissue culture is one of the potential technologies that can be used to increase
seaweed production to cope with increasing demand. Seaweed tissue culture can be …

The tissue culture of phycocolloid yielding seaweeds included preparation of axenic
explants, callus induction, subculture of excised callus and regeneration of plantlets from …

Among the red algae, Kappaphycus and Eucheuma are the two most commercially
important carrageenophytes farmed extensively in Southeast Asian countries; they rank top …

Gracilaria changii seaweed is primarily important as a source of agar with wide applications
in food industries. The high demand of agar led to gradual depletion of G. changii in natural …

The extraction of metabolites of industrial interest from seaweed tissue is difficult due to the
presence of anionic polysaccharides in the cell walls. We studied enzymatic digestion of …

Callus induction of the agarophyte marine alga Gracilaria verrucosa was obtained on
modified ASP6 F2 media. The formation of callus from axenic explants depended on the …