In this study, we have analyzed water-extracted polysaccharides of Gracilaria corticata. The water extract (WE), a galactan-containing sub-fraction (F3) and their hyper sulfated derivatives (WES1, WES2, F3S1 and F3S2) had anti-HSV activity with inhibitory concentration 50% (IC50) from 1.1 to 27.4 microg/ml. Sub-fraction F3, which has a molecular mass of 30 kDa, consists of a backbone of beta-(1...

Allelopathy, one type of direct plant competition, can be a potent mechanism through which plant communities are structured. The aim of this study was to determine whether allelopathic interactions occur between the opportunistic green tide-forming species Ulva prolifera and the native macroalga Gracilaria lichvoides, both of which were collected from the coastline of East China sea. In laborat...

The history of a domesticated marine macroalga is studied using archaeological, phylogeographic and population genetic tools. Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses demonstrated that the cultivated red alga Gracilaria chilensis colonised the Chilean coast from New Zealand. Combining archaeological observations with phylogeographic data provided evidence that exchanges between New Zeala...

Macroalgae has bloomed in the brackish lake of Shenzhen Bay, China continuously from 2010 to 2014. Gracilaria tenuistipitata was identified as the causative macroalgal species. The aim of this study was to explore the outbreak mechanism of G. tenuistipitata, by studying the effects of salinity and nitrogen sources on growth, and the different nitrogen sources uptake characteristic. Our experime...

Seven samples of halophyte plants (Bassia hirsuta Aschers, Euphorbia peplis L., Salicornia europeae L., Calystegia soldanella, Calystegia sepium, Stachys maritima Gonan and Suaeda maritima Dumort,) were collected from a sand bar near the town of Pomorie (Bulgaria). The soil salinity ranged between 650 and 850 mg salts in 100 g soil. For comparison, two other samples from the species Calistegia ...

salinity is one of the major environmental stresses that limit plant growth and productivity. glasswort (salicornia herbacea l.) is one of the native halophytic plants of iran that widely spread in salt areas. the purpose of this study was to determine the physiological and growth responses of s. herbacea to salinity stress. plastic pods (15 cm diameter, 20 cm height) with the silica sand bed w...