Advances in Life Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 6

Quantity Estimation of Phycocolloids from Cultured Kappaphycus alvarezii and Gracilaria corticata

  • Author:
  • Kirtankumar V. Tandel1,, Nilesh H. Joshi2, Gauravkumar M. Tandel3, Mihir R. Patel4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 2424 to 2426

1Department of Aquaculture, College of fisheries, Junagadh Agricultural University, Veraval, Gujarat

2Fisheries Research Station, Junagadh Agricultural University, Okha, Gujarat

3Laboratory of Genome Science, Graduate School of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

4Department of Aquaculture, College of fisheries, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan

*email: kirtantandel7730@gmail.com

Online published on 15 December, 2016.

Abstract

Gracilaria corticata and Kappaphycus alvarezii cultivation was carried out from October 2013 to April 2014 in two seasons (winter and summer) at the Okha Coast (220 28’ N and 690 05’ E), Okha Port, Gujarat, India. The total biomass of grown seaweeds in intertidal zone were measured and used for the extraction of phycocolloid viz. carrageenan from K. alvarezii and agar-agar from G. corticata. The quantity estimation of phycocolloids from cultured seaweed was performed.

Keywords

Phycocolloids, Carrageenan, Agar