METHOD FOR PROLIFERATING ALGAE AND THE RESULTANT CULTURED ALGAE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method enabling macroalgae, especially red algae, to be preserved in a non-matured condition over a long period and to be cultured, and also designed to efficiently culture a new unialgal strain having at least one property among the following:(1) high productivity of physiologically active substances, (2) high rate of growing algal bodies and (3) high ability to absorb nutritive salts, and to provide a large quantity of algae cultured by such a method.;SOLUTION: The method for proliferating algae comprises making a nutritive culture of pieces of an artificial culture strain of the algae, preferably Gracilaria verrucosa. The resultant cultured algae are also provided.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI