The use of image processing in assessing conchocelis growth and conchospore production in Porphyra linearis

Phycologia

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 282-287

  Varela Alvarez, Elena ^a   Stengel, Dagmar B ^a   Guiry, Michael D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BANGIACEAE; CONCHOCELIS; EUKARYOTA; PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA LINEARIS; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 2542463248     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-43-3-282.1     Document Type: Article

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