Question

What disease can algae get and how do you prevent them? What are the resources?

Note that you should answer the diseases algae can get not the diseases caused by algae.

Answer 1

Algae can be affected by various microbes such as bacteria which can cause Lysis to algae , viruses such as chlorella cause chytrid disease, protists and fungi also causes disease to algae.

These disease can be prevented by Quorum quenching in which some signals molecules are used to control vital function and develop resistance. Apart from this evasive strategies can be used in which algae form morphologically distinct resting stage which helps to avoid contact. Induce resistance and complex interaction strategies having a future scope in the prevention.

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