This digital document is a journal article from Bioresource Technology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: The effect of seaweed liquid fertilizers (SLF) of Sargassum wightii and Caulerpa chemnitzia on growth and biochemical constituents of Vigna sinensis was studied. The seeds soaked with aqueous extract of seaweeds performed better when compared to the water soaked controls. Hundred per cent germination was recorded both in aqueous extract soaked and water soaked treatments. The low concentration (20%) of aqueous extracts of S. wightii and C. chemnitzia promoted the seedling growth including the parameters of shoot length (15.87, 14.13cm/seedling), root length (6.42, 5.38cm/seedling), fresh weight (4.017, 4.012g/seedling) and dry weight (0.878, 0.865g/seedling), chlorophyll (1.599, 1.491mgg^-^1fr. wt.), carotenoids (0.899, 0.875mgg^-^1fr. wt.), protein content of shoot (3.956, 3.474mgg^-^1fr. wt.) and root (2.926, 2.890mgg^-^1fr. wt.), amino acid content of shoot (1.447, 1.429mgg^-^1fr. wt.) and root (0.698, 0.680mgg^-^1fr. wt.), reducing sugar content of shoot (6.426, 6.233mgg^-^1fr. wt.) and root (5.118, 5.103mgg^-^1fr. wt.), total sugar content of shoot (11.846, 11.350mgg^-^1fr. wt.) and root (10.368, 10.102mgg^-^1fr. wt.), @a-amylase (1.927, 1.819@mgmin^-^1mg^-^1 protein) and @b-amylase (1.730, 1.617@mgmin^-^1mg^-^1 protein) activities in V. sinensis. Among the two seaweeds tested, S. wightii exhibited better responses.