REVIEW article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Aquatic Photosynthetic Organisms
Harnessing Marine Plant Extracts for Sustainable Agriculture, Livestock Management, Industrial Use, and Biomedical Applications
Provisionally accepted
- 1Harran University, Şanlıurfa, Türkiye
- 2Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- 3Cukurova Universitesi, Adana, Türkiye
- 4Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Marine plants are emerging as versatile resources for bioactive compounds with antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer properties. Beyond their therapeutic potential, marine extracts offer agronomic and industrial value as biostimulants, natural pigments, biodegradable packaging materials, and green corrosion inhibitors, and serve as reducing agents in the synthesis of biomedical nanoparticles. This review integrates evidence from 256 studies (2011–2025), revealing rapid growth in the field over the past two years. The findings highlight the capacity of marine extracts to enhance crop and livestock productivity, yield stable natural dyes, create smart polysaccharide-based films, and protect metals via phenolic and sulfated polysaccharide fractions. Nanoparticles synthesized from these extracts exhibit improved biological performance. By linking agricultural, industrial, and biomedical perspectives, this work underscores the multifaceted potential of marine plant extracts and outlines future priorities in molecular characterization, strain development, and scalable green processing.
Keywords: marine plant extracts, sustainable agriculture, Functional feed additives, Industrialapplications, green technology, cancer therapy
Received: 15 Aug 2025; Accepted: 07 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 YILDIRIM, Amangeldinova, Poyraz, Erşatır, Mussayeva and Kudrina. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Metin YILDIRIM, metinyildirim4@gmail.com
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