Journal of Fish Health
Growth Performance and Pathological Responses of Tissue Culture and Local <i>Kappaphycus alvarezii</i> Seedlings in Marine Waters of Punti Village, Bima Bay, Indonesia
Kappaphycus alvarezii is an economically important carrageenan-producing red alga, and tissue culture has been promoted as a means of improving seedling quality and field growth performance in Indonesian seaweed farming; however, field-based evidence comparing tissue-culture and conventional (local) seedlings under commercial cultivation conditions remains limited. This study therefore compared the growth performance and disease susceptibility of tissue-culture-derived and local Kappaphycus alvarezii seedlings cult …