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Research has also demonstrated that brown algae seaweed extracts can improve tomato plant growth, overall crop yield, and resistance to environmental stressors. [60] Additional documented benefits of using seaweed as a fertilizer include reduced transplant shock, increased leaf surface area, and increased sugar content. [61]
The same protective benefits that are of value to the seaweed plant have also found to be of potential benefit for both human and animal health. Fucoidan extracts are utilised in a range of therapeutic health care preparations, being incorporated as high value ingredients in nutritional, medical device, skincare and dermatological products.
Ascophyllum nodosum is an autotroph, meaning that it makes its own food by photosynthesis, like other plants and algae. The air bladders on A. nodosum serve as a flotation device, which allows sunlight to reach the plant better, aiding photosynthesis. [6] Epiphytic red algae on knotted wrack at Roscoff, France
Among one of the most nutrient-rich sea vegetables popular in these regions is kelp, a type of seaweed. “Eat more vegetables” is healthy eating 101; you don’t have to know all that much ...
Seaweed is an extractive crop that has little need for fertilisers or water, meaning that seaweed farms typically have a smaller environmental footprint than other agriculture or fed aquaculture. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Many of the impacts of seaweed farms, both positive and negative, remain understudied and uncertain.
Seaweed has been an important plant for many First Nations peoples of British Columbia. Along the coast, families still travel out to seaweed beds that have provided food for thousands of years. [1] Dried red laver (Porphyra abbottiae Krishnamurthy) is a type of edible seaweed. Laver is usually gathered in great amounts in Spring.
There’s been quite a bit of research done on the benefits of indoor plants on our health and well-being.
Limu, otherwise known as rimu, remu or ʻimu (from Proto-Austronesian *limut) [1] is a general Polynesian term for edible plants living underwater, such as seaweed, or plants living near water, like algae. [2] [3] In Hawaii, there are approximately one hundred names for kinds of limu, sixty of which can be matched with scientific names. [4]