{"id":6630,"date":"2017-08-11T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2017-08-11T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:24:53","slug":"new-seaweed-colony-found-off-kovalam-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/new-seaweed-colony-found-off-kovalam-coast.html","title":{"rendered":"New Seaweed Colony Found off Kovalam Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0seaweed colony\u00a0was found off Kovalam-Chovvara coast by a city-based NGO, engaged in marine life research and protection activities. The seaweed is said to have great medicinal values.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6631 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kovalam-seaweed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kovalam-seaweed-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kovalam-seaweed-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The research team of Friends of Marine Life (FML) spotted the colony of\u00a0seaweeds\u00a0of <em>Tetrastromatica<\/em> species of <em>Padina<\/em> genus spread over eight rocks.\u00a0The brown seaweeds, especially <em>Sargassum<\/em> and <em>Padina<\/em> are often used as seafood and as an ingredient in cool drinks besides anti-microbial experiments and pharmaceutical productions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/thiruvananthapuram\/new-seaweed-colony-found-off-kovalam-coast\/articleshow\/59870288.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0seaweed colony\u00a0was found off Kovalam-Chovvara coast by a city-based NGO, engaged in marine life research and protection activities. The seaweed is said to have great medicinal values. The research team of Friends of Marine Life (FML) spotted the colony of\u00a0seaweeds\u00a0of Tetrastromatica species of Padina genus spread over eight rocks.\u00a0The brown seaweeds, especially Sargassum and Padina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaweed","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}