Agar from vegetative and tetrasporic Gelidiella acerosa (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta)

Botanica Marina

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 501-506

  Roleda, M Y ^a   Ganzon Fortes, E T ^a   Montano N E ^a  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; MACROLAGAE; YIELD;

LUZON ISLAND; PHILIPPINES;

GELIDIELLA ACEROSA;

EID: 0031404435     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/botm.1997.40.1-6.501     Document Type: Article

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