Abstract
Several species of cosmopolitan marine macroalgal genus Ulva (Chlorophyta) are economically important due to high growth, carbohydrate, protein and lipid content. Nevertheless, analysis pertaining these traits of any species has by no means been explicitly investigated. We herein investigated 109 samples of U. rigida from fifteen locations of Indian coast for carbohydrate, protein and lipid content suitable for further development of scaled-up production. The carbohydrate, protein and lipid content ranged from 16.63 ± 1.07 to 65.93 ± 0.49% dry weight, 4.14 ± 0.45 to 26.0 ± 1.43% dry weight and 0.8 ± 0.08 to 3.1 ± 0.04% dry weight respectively. Principal component analysis provides an interpretable overview of main information enclosed in a multidimensional data set satisfactorily explained 72.1% of the total variability in the present data, with principal component 1 accounting for 38.7% and principal component 2 for 33.4% of the total variation. The study confirmed that the strain collected from Gopnath, Gujarat possesses high potential for industrial exploitation due to its high carbohydrate level. Growing this alga on large-scale might pave ways for socio-economic development of coastal populace.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4749-4755 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Food Science and Technology |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 10 |
Early online date | 19 Jul 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank Analytical Division and Centralized Instrument Facility for support. This work is carried out under Indo-UK collaborative project entitled “Transnational approaches to resolving biological bottlenecks in macroalgal biofuel production (SuBBSea).” The financial support by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi is gratefully acknowledged [BT/IN/Indo-UK/SuBB/22/AML/2013]. We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and handling editor for constructive comments on the manuscript. We thanks Dr. CRK Reddy, Retired Scientist and Principal Investigator of the project for facilitating the work and constructive suggestions to improve the original draft of the manuscript. Dr. M. Ganesan, Dr. Monica Kawale, Mr. Ashok Bhagat and Ms. Richa Sharma are acknowledged for enhancing sampling efforts. Authors would like to thank Dr. Amitava Das, Director, CSIR, CSMCRI for facilities and encouragement. This has CSIR-CSMCRI PRIS Registration Number PRIS 010/2017 dt. 18.01.2017.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India).
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Carbohydrate
- Lipid
- Marine macro algae
- Principal component analysis
- Protein
- Ulva