Field Cultivation of Hypnea (Rhodophyta) Spores for Carrageenan: Prospects and Problems
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Date
1976
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Botanica Marina
Abstract
Carpospores and tetraspores ofHypnea cervicornis J, Agardh have been cultivated in the fieid.
These developed intoadult fronds in thiee months. This implies that where nutrients or other
environmental factors are not limiting, it ispossible to raise four harvestable crops of Hypnea
from spores per year, Since carpospores gave rise to tetrasporo-phytes and tetraspores produced
gametophytes, it was concluded that the life history of the species is of the Poly-siphonia-type
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Field Cultivation of Hypnea (Rhodophyta), Spores for Carrageenan
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Mshigeni, K.E., 1976. Field cultivation of Hypnea (Rhodophyta) spores for carrageenan: prospects and problems.