Structure and properties of agar from two unexploited agarophytes from Venezuela

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 326-327, Issue , 1996, Pages 497-500

  Murano, Erminio ^a,b   Toffanin, Renato ^a,b   Pedersini, Cristiano ^b   Carabot Cuervo, Alfredo ^c   Blunden, Gerald ^d   Rizzo, Roberto ^a,e  

^a POLY bios   (Italy)

^b Polytech   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

agar; Gelidiella acerosa; Gracilaria mammillaris; red algae; red seaweed; sulphate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029840275     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00047851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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