Irene Cuxart

Jul 18, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michael Wallace |Irene Cuxart |Thomas Roret |Laura Guée

Red algae are ancient,1 photosynthetic, mainly marine eukaryotes. Their biomass is composed largely of cell wall components, including the complex carrageenan galactan (Figure 1A). Carrageenans have valuable gelling and stabilizing properties (e.g. the main gelling carrageenans, β-, ι- and κ-carrageenans),2 though natural carrageenans are heterogeneous structures.