The visual observation (Fig.2) reveals a dark reddish-purple to reddish-wine colored plant that bears a striking resemblance to feathers. Its fronds are flat and cartilaginous. Its thallus can reach a height of approximately 10 cm, and its distichous branching is regular (Fig.2b). Figure2s...
was first treated using dilution and settlement and the unsettled layer of NRD was then processed using membrane filtration at a different range of molecular weight cut-offs (MWCO), namely micro-filtration (MWCO: 0.2 µm), ultra-filtration (MWCO: 10 kDa) and nano-filtration (MWCO: 500 Da...