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Siobhan Schenk
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Trying to grow nori in Northern BC
PhD in Botany
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A more accurate sentence would be: "UBC botanists describe "pink-spot disease" in kelp nurseries."

Please fix this on Twitter as well.

You can contact the corresponding author and/or UBC researcher listed on the manuscript by email before posting to avoid this in the future.
Cultivation of kelp and other macroalgae is a growing industry in North America. In the well established macroalgal growing regions in Asia and Africa, macroalgal disease cause crop losses, placing a significant economic burden on growers. As kelp cultivation intensifies in North America, disease prevalence is expected to increase in tandem. Here, we describe the prevalence and bacterial community associated with a novel disease of kelp in the land based nursery stage that is characterized by bright pink spots, termed pink-spot disease. With input from the kelp-growing community through an online survey, we show that pink-spot disease has been widely observed in Canada and the United States on nursery cultivation spools of the kelps Saccharina latissima, Alaria marginata, Nereocystis luetkeana, and Macrocystis
July 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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That's not what my paper says
July 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The seaweed symposium tag is #ISS25
May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM