Assimilation of sulphur into the cell-wall polysaccharide of the red microalga Porphyridium sp. (Rhodophyta)

Phycologia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 505-511

  Keidan, Marina ^a   Broshy, Hadas ^a   Van Moppes, Dorit ^a   Arad, Shoshana ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Porphyridium sp.; Red microalga; Sodium chlorate; Sulphated polysaccharide; Sulphur assimilation pathways

Indexed keywords

PORPHYRIDIUM; PORPHYRIDIUM SP.; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 33748487814     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/05-57.1     Document Type: Article

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