Seaweed group explores ocean of possibilities

From: Honolulu Star - Bulletin | Date: May 21, 2002| Author: Thompson, Rod | Copyright information

HILO >> Seaweed is in your ice cream, your chocolate milk, your paint, your beer. Seaweed is in the glop your dentist uses to make impressions of your teeth.

Despite seaweed extracts being in products all around us, not many botanists study commercial seaweeds.

Starting tomorrow, 30 Pacific Basin seaweed experts from Thailand to Chile will gather at the University of Hawaii-Hilo for a weeklong workshop on economically valuable species.

Those 30 represent a major por...

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