Gracilaria crassa

Ganesan, Review Meenakshisundaram, Trivedi, Nitin, Gupta, Vishal, Madhav, S. Venu, Reddy, Chennur Radhakrishna & Levine, Ira A., 2019, Seaweed resources in India - current status of diversity and cultivation: prospects and challenges, Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) 62 (5), pp. 463-482 : 474

Gracilaria crassa

Gracilaria crassa Harvey ex J. Agardh is an important agarophyte yielding agar with a gel strength of approximately 800 g cm−2 with 8% alkali treatment ( Meena et al. 2008). Standing stocks of G. crassa are limited to a few locations along the southeast and northwest coasts of India. Recent cultivation efforts included 10 tube-nets inoculated with 10 kg fresh wt raft−1. A maximum of 30 kg biomass was harvested at the end of a 45-day growing cycle ( Figure 15 ).

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Figure 15: Gracilaria crassa cultivation. (A) G. crassa grown on net; (B) close-up view.