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International Journal on Algae

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9429

Institutional price:	$905.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2002, Volume4

130 pages

Issue price - $216.00

A study of the chemical composition of Gracilaria verrucosa (Huds.) Papenf. (Rhodophyta) as a source material for comprehensive use

D. V. Mikulich
Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37, Pushkinskaya St., 65011 Odessa, Ukraine

L. I. Boyko
Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37, Pushkinskaya St., 65011 Odessa, Ukraine

L. V. Antsupova
Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37, Pushkinskaya St., 65011 Odessa, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The results of a study of the chemical composition and technological properties, and also of nutritive and biological values of Gracilaria verrucosa (Huds.) Papenf. occurring in the Black Sea are presented. The prospects are determined for the comprehensive use of this specific algal material, including the production of agar from the algae and preparation of medicinal-prophylactic, nutritive, and fodder products from algal wastes by the methods of extraction, acid hydrolysis, enrichment with Lactobacillus acidophilus, and bio-transformation.