Agars from three Fijian Gracilaria species

Botanica Marina

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-59

  Falshaw, R ^a   Furneaux, R H ^a   Pickering, T D ^b   Stevenson, D E ^a  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANALYTICAL METHOD;

GRACILARIA; GRACILARIA ARCUATA; GRACILARIA EDULIS; GRACILARIA MARAMAE;

EID: 0033031582     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.1999.008     Document Type: Article

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