Recent Agri-news: Recently, the restoration process of seagrasses is taken up by Tamil Nadu in the Gulf of Mannar
Seagrasses
- These are flowering plants that grow submerged in shallow marine waters like bays and lagoons.
- These have tiny flowers and strap-like or oval leaves.
- Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants that recolonised the ocean around 70-100 million years ago.
- Seagrasses also produce food by photosynthesis
- They reproduce sexually as well as asexually.
- Some of the important seagrasses:
- Sea Cow Grass (Cymodocea serrulata)
- Thready Seagrass (Cymodocea rotundata)
- Needle Seagrass (Syringodium isoetifolium)
- Flat-tipped Seagrass (Halodule uninervis), etc.
