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The cellulose contents of Indian seaweeds

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Cellulose content as well as alpha (α) and beta (β) celluloses were evaluated in 21 seaweed species belonging to different classes growing in Indian waters. The greatest yields of cellulose (crude) and β-cellulose were obtained from Caulerpa taxifolia (approx. 11.0% and 5.2%, respectively), whilst α-cellulose (approx. 8.2%) was the greatest in Padina tetrastromatica. The lowest cellulose (crude), α- and β- contents were recorded from the calcareous red alga Liagora ceranoides (approx. 0.85%, 0.62% and 0.18%, respectively). There was no variation in the yields of cellulose in the brown algae, whilst wide variations in the yields were found in the green and red algae.

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Acknowledgment

Grateful thanks are accorded to CSIR, New Delhi, for the award of senior research fellowships to MUC, GKM and MDO and a fellowship to NDS (CSIR NWP-37). Ministry of Earth Sciences New Delhi is gratefully acknowledged for a senior research fellowship to SK as well as for financial support (MoES/9-DS/6/2007-PC-IV). The authors wish to thank Dr. M Ganesan and Dr. Vaibhav Mantri for their kind help in seaweed collection and identification.

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    A. K. Siddhanta, Mahesh U. Chhatbar, Gaurav K. Mehta, Naresh D. Sanandiya, Sanjay Kumar, Mihir D. Oza, Kamalesh Prasad & Ramavatar Meena

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Collection data of the Indian seaweed species studied (PDF 32 kb)

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Yield (%) of celluloses obtained from the Indian seaweed species. a Inse: α/β Ratios of seaweed celluloses. The details of the seaweed codes mentioned in the x-axis are provided in Table S1 (PDF 74 kb)

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CP/MAS 13C NMR spectra of the crude (a), α-cellulose (b) and β-cellulose (c) samples obtained from Padina tetrastromatica (PDF 27 kb)

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CP/MAS 13C NMR spectra of the crude (a), α-cellulose (b) and β-cellulose (c) samples obtained from Gelidium pusillum (PDF 30 kb)

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XRD profiles of the cellulose samples obtained from Padina tetrastromatica crude (a), α-cellulose (b) and β-cellulose (c) (PDF 37 kb)

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XRD profiles of the cellulose samples obtained from Gelidium pusillum crude (a), α-cellulose (b) and β-cellulose (c) (PDF 36 kb)

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Siddhanta, A.K., Chhatbar, M.U., Mehta, G.K. et al. The cellulose contents of Indian seaweeds. J Appl Phycol 23, 919–923 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-010-9599-2

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