Viability of dried vegetative cells or filaments, survivability and/or reproduction under water and light stress, and following heat and UV exposure in some blue-green and green algae

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 501-509

  Agrawal, S C ^a   Pal, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; APHANOTHECE; APHANOTHECE NIDULANS; CHLOROPHYTA; CHROOCOCCUS; CHROOCOCCUS MINOR; EUKARYOTA; GLOEOCAPSA; GLOEOCAPSA AERUGINOSA; HYDRODICTYON RETICULATUM; OEDOGONIUM; PHORMIDIUM; PHORMIDIUM FOVEOLARUM; PROKARYOTA; SCYTONEMA; SCYTONEMA HOFMANNI;

EID: 0141456170     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931332     Document Type: Article

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