Cellulose microfibril assembly and orientation in some bangiophyte red algae: Relationship between synthesizing terminal complexes and microfibril structure, shape, and dimensions

Phycologia

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-224

  Tsekos, Ioannes ^a   Orologas, Nicolas ^a   Herth, Werner ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ERYTHROCLADIA; ERYTHROCLADIA SUBINTEGRA; ERYTHROTRICHIA; ERYTHROTRICHIA CARNEA; EUKARYOTA; PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA LEUCOSTICTA; PORPHYRA YEZOENSIS; RHODOPHYTA; UEDA;

EID: 0032816178     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-38-3-217.1     Document Type: Article

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