Laminarin is a cytosolic storage polysaccharide of phytoplankton and macroalgae and accounts for over 10% of the world´s annually fixed carbon dioxide. Algal disruption, e.g., by viral lysis releases laminarin. The soluble sugar is rapidly utilized by free-living planktonic bacteria, in which sugar ...
ORGANISM(S): Maribacter sp. Hel_I_7