Biotechnological Interventions to Aid Commercial Seaweed Farming / edited by Mangal S. Rathore, Vaibhav A. Mantri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rathore, Mangal S., Editor.

Mantri, Vaibhav A., Editor.

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freshwater ecology.

Marine ecology.

Botany.

Plant biotechnology.

Marine engineering.

Freshwater and Marine Ecology.

Plant Science.

Plant Biotechnology.

Marine Engineering.

Local Subjects:

Freshwater and Marine Ecology.

Plant Science.

Plant Biotechnology.

Marine Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIX, 502 p. 83 illus., 80 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This edited book focuses on various research topics and constraints over the seaweed sector’s sustainable development. Seaweed potentially contributes to multiple Sustainable Development Goals and thus there is a growing interest in seaweeds sectors for various industrial and ecosystem services. This book particularly focuses on the biological and biotechnological processes to aid the large-scale commercial seaweed farming. Developing quality material, disease resistance and heritable improvements in the existing germplasm sourced from wild populations, protoplast and callus-based technologies, and germplasm preservation are the major focus areas of the book. The information and knowledge provided by this book would facilitate evidence-based policymaking and sector management in seaweed development at the national and global levels. The seaweed sector has already been established or identified as sunrise sector in Asian, American, European and African countries. In these nations, this volume will act as valuable reference material for marine-sector professionals and government representatives as well.

Contents:

1. Analysis of three-decade change in global seaweed statistics revealed its emergence as a major aquaculture commodity

2 From sea to super crops: The expanding horizons of seaweed in technology and industry

3. Genetic and environmental challenges facing Gracilaria and Gracilariopsis aquaculture industry

4. Seasonal dynamics of Eucheuma sp. macroalgae: Temperature and wave effects on growth patterns at the Caribbean entrance of the Panama Canal

5. Current Status of Eucheumatoid Seaweed Farming in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines

6. Development of seedling production through micro-propagation technique, maintenance of off-shore seed banks and potential biotechnological tools for sustainable aquaculture of Kappaphycus alvarezii in Sri Lanka

7. An overview on in vitro callus culture and propagule regeneration: a step toward germplasm improvements in seaweeds

8. New interventions in Sargassum cultivation

9. Cultivation of seaweeds using photobioreactor for enhanced biomass productivity and quality

10. Role of seaweed derived bio-stimulants in commercial seaweed farming

11. Photosynthetic traits of commercially important red seaweed

12. Spore-based seaweed propagation for germplasm selection and cultivation

13. Protoplast system for seaweeds research: Status and future implications

14. Potential applications of nanotechnological interventions in seaweed cultivation

15. Genetic improvement of Kappaphycus alvarezzi (Doty) by molecular breeding

16. Seaweed Proteomics- Unveiling the environmental stress responses with an aim to improve the key processes and aid to the cultivation

17. Seaweed-bacteria interaction, molecular mechanism and biotechnological applications

18. Insights on genetic alterations of green macroalgae (Chlorophyta)

19. Cryopreservation technique for seaweed germplasm storage- potential applications in aquaculture and conservation

20. Computational modeling of thylakoid membrane dynamics in photosynthetic process: Insights into the biomolecular interactions.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789819794270

9819794277

OCLC:

1499718830