Valorising Sugar Kelp

We completed a short InnovateUK project to map secondary metabolism in sugar kelp

The UK coastline has enormous seaweed farming potential, but most current products are mid-value, mid-volume polymers

We annotated public genomes, built knowledge graphs and reconstructed metabolic networks to identify possible high-value, low-volume chemicals

The sugar kelp genome encodes biosynthetic genes for terpenoids and prostaglandins (mediators of mechanical stress response)

Our industry briefing with community data files is here

By Baralloco - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0