Chitin and Chitosan fertilizer

Chitin  and Chitosan fertilizer  is a high molecular weight ubiquitous material occurs abundantly on the earth next to cellulose, was first described by Braconnot at 1811. Chitin is extensively act as a major structural component of shells of crustaceans, exoskel eton of insects and cell walls of bacteria and fungi. Chitin is structurally insoluble linear mucopolysaccharide consisting repeated units of N-acetyl –D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) linked by β-(14) glycosidic bonds. Structurally chitin is highly similar to cellulose, the difference is hydroxyl [-OH] group of C-2 position in cellulose is replaced by an acetamido [-NHCOCH3] group in chitin. Chitin is widely distributed but specifically extracted from shellfish waste such as shrimps, crabs and crawfish.  click here to know more about marshallmarine http://goo.gl/W47fRb