The hydrocolloids carrageenan and agar are the major fraction industrially extracted and
commercialized from red seaweeds. However, this type of macroalgae also contains a …

The term hydrocolloid generally refers to substances that form gels or provide viscous
dispersion in the presence of water. Alginate, agar, and carrageenan are three commercially …

Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) of agar from Gracilaria vermiculophylla, produced in
an integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) system, from Ria de Aveiro (northwestern …

In this study, two eco-friendly methods for agar extraction, enzyme-assisted extraction and
enzyme extraction, were developed to promote workers' health and provide environmental …

Agar is a Japanese agarophyte seaweed that was first brought to the Far East and then to
the rest of the world. It is a gel-forming polysaccharide that produces D-galactose when …

Since agar has been used for various applications such as gelling agents in food industry,
culture medium in microbiology, gel elecrophoresis in biotechnology, and in pharmacy by …

The utilization potential, in terms of agar production, of the invasive alga, Gracilaria
vermiculophylla, collected at Ria de Aveiro, northwestern Portugal was investigated. The …

Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis, one of the principal economical seaweeds in China, has been
increasingly threatened by diseases and yield reduction due to heat stress caused by global …

A novel agar extraction method was explored as an alternative to the traditional agar
extraction method. This method used low concentration of Ca (OH) 2 solution to desulfurize …

Background Red algae are economically valuable for food and in industry. However, their
genomic information is limited, and the genomic data of only a few species of red algae have …