Seasonal variations in the composition and gel quality of agar from Gracilaria edulis in the Philippines

Botanica Marina

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-194

  Romero, Jumelita B ^a,b,c   Montaño, Marco Nemesio E ^b   Merca, Florinia E ^c   Villanueva, Ronald D ^b   Liao, Ming Long ^d   Bacic, Antony ^d  

^a Mindanao State University Tawi Tawi Tawi Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography Sanga Sanga   (Philippines)

^b University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agar; FTIR spectroscopy; Gracilaria edulis; Monosaccharide constituent; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

AGAR; DISACCHARIDE; FOOD INDUSTRY; RED ALGA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ASIA; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

GRACILARIA; GRACILARIA EDULIS;

EID: 34547925629     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: 14374323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2007.023     Document Type: Article

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