TaxonomyRhodophyta
old name
Porphyra abbottiae
new name
Pyropia abbottiae
USE: Porphyra abbottiae
REFERENCES: P. abbottiae is a prized food in Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian (Alaska and British Columbia, Canada). Dried black seaweed is eaten as a snack like popcorn. It can also be added to a meal like the Seaweed Chop Suey. Use of a pyrenocine compound or a pyrenochaetic acid compound for the prevention or the treatment in an alga of a disease induced by a protistan pathogen.
