Ecotoxicological Assessment of Seaweed-Based Crop Biostimulant on Earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae Kinb

Methods Mol Biol. 2024:2753:331-338. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3625-1_17.

Abstract

Aqueous extracts from green seaweeds Chaetomorpha antennina and Ulva flexuosa (SWE) had considerable impacts on the growth and development of tomato plants; it was evident that SWE could be widely applied as agricultural biostimulants as one among a promising strategy of sustainable agriculture. With a higher probability of SWE to replace synthetic agrochemicals, we describe a procedure here to perform an ecotoxicological assessment of liquid SWE on the earthworm, Eudrilus eugeniae Kinb with respect to their growth, survivability, and reproduction.

Keywords: Earthworm growth; Liquid extract; Plant growth enhancement; Reproduction; Survivability.

MeSH terms

  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Chlorophyta*
  • Oligochaeta*
  • Seaweed*
  • Vegetables

Supplementary concepts

  • Chaetomorpha