The backbone structure of the sulfated galactan from Plocamium costatum (C. Agardh) Hook. f. et Harv. (Plocamiaceae, Rhodophyta)

Botanica Marina

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 431-435

  Falshaw, R ^a,b   Furneaux, R H ^a   Miller, I J ^a  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^b Carina Chemical Laboratories Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; PLOCAMIACEAE; PLOCAMIUM; PLOCAMIUM COSTATUM; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0032868482     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.1999.049     Document Type: Article

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