Blooms and coastal inundations of pelagic Sargassum have caused major problems to communities ecosystems throughout the tropical Atlantic over past decade. Understanding growth, movement, mortality is essential being able predict mitigate these events. In principle, cyclones that occur in this area could an impact on all three processes. a recent article, Sosa-Gutierrez et al. (2022, https://do...

A phytochemical investigation of a southern Australian marine brown alga, Sargassum paradoxum, resulted in the isolation and identification of four new (5, 9, 10, and 15) and nine previously reported (1, 2, 6-8, and 11-14) bioactive meroditerpenoids. HPLC-NMR and HPLC-MS were central to the identification of a new unstable compound, sargahydroquinal (9), and pivotal in the deconvolution of eigh...

Seaweed cultivation is a high growth industry that is primarily targeted at human food and hydrocolloid markets. However, seaweed biomass also offers a feedstock for the production of nutrient-rich biochar for soil amelioration. We provide the first data of biochar yield and characteristics from intensively cultivated seaweeds (Saccharina, Undaria and Sargassum--brown seaweeds, and Gracilaria, ...

Sargassum is a brown macroalga that has become general environmental problem in the Mexican Caribbean. Despite negative effects on beaches, algae contain compounds of biotechnological and agronomic interest. The possibility using sargassum as substrate under liquid media fermentation (LMF) processes will allow obtention bioactive compounds. In this research, five species from Puerto Morelos reg...

The edible seaweed Sargassum polycystum (SP) is traditionally used against several human diseases. This investigation evaluated the effects of two dietary doses of SP ethanolic and aqueous extracts on the pancreatic, hepatic, and renal morphology of type 2 diabetic rats (T2DM). T2DM was induced by feeding rats on high calorie diet followed by a low dose streptozotocin. Changes in the diabetic r...

Sulfated polysaccharides from marine algae are one of the commercially beneficial compounds with a range of pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. They are testified to be effective against free radicals and related health complications. This study aims to determine the antioxidant potential of the sulfated polysaccharide from Sargassum myriocystum, followed by its purification and structu...