Algae of the genus Ulva (IMAGE)

MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Algae of the genus Ulva

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Enzymes are biocatalysts that are crucial for the degradation of seaweed biomass in oceans. For the first time, an international team of 19 scientists recently decoded the complete degradation pathway of the algal polysaccharide Ulvan by biocatalysts from a marine bacterium.

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Thomas Wilfried

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