What is it about?
Gracilaria gracilis is one of the best candidates for cultivation and consequent agar extraction, thanks to: fast growth rate, ease of vegetative reproduction, good resistance to salinity and temperature oscillation, good agar qualities. In this review we also discuss many beneficial biological activities of agar and the newest applications of it in pharmaceutical, medical, engineering and other fields.
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Why is it important?
Agar produced by Gracilaria gracilis can have many beneficial biological activities as anticoagulant, antiviral, antioxidative, anticancer and immune-modulating activity.
Perspectives
This article is about the possibility to use marine organism's potential to produce many active compounds with great possibility of applications for numerous purposes.
Prof. Dr. Valbona V Aliko
University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology
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This page is a summary of: Gracilaria gracilis, Source of Agar: A Short Review, Current Organic Chemistry, January 2017, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1385272820666161017164605.
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