A physico-chemical comparative study on extracellular carbohydrate polymers from five desert algae

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-32

  Hokputsa, Sanya ^a   Hu, Chunxiang ^b   Paulsen, Berit Smestad ^c   Harding, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Desert algal polysaccharide; Hydrodynamic characterization

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CONFORMATIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYSACCHARIDES;

CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS;

BIOPOLYMERS;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; COCCOIDEA; CYANOBACTERIA; DESMOCOCCUS; DESMOCOCCUS OLIVACEUS; MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS; NOSTOC SP.; PHORMIDIUM TENUE; SCYTONEMA JAVANICUM;

EID: 0042405003     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8617(03)00136-X     Document Type: Article

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