Screening for agarolytic bacteria and development of a novel method for in situ detection of agarase

Journal of Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 194-200

  Ghadi, Sanjeev C ^a   Muraleedharan, Usha D ^a   Jawaid, Safdar ^a  

^a GOA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AGARASE; AGAROLYTIC ACTIVITY; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYMES;

INDIA;

EID: 0031428877     PISSN: 09412905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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