alginic acid catabolic process

id: GO:0042122
name: alginic acid catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of alginic acid, a hydrophilic polysaccharide occurring in, for example, the cell walls of brown algae (brown seaweeds).

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0042120alginic acid metabolic process
GO:0046355mannan catabolic process