Fatty acid profile of the edible filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme at different temperatures and developmental stages in liquid suspension culture

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 371-377

  Liu, Xue Jun ^a   Jiang, Yue ^b   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Developmental stages; Fatty acid; Filamentous cyanobacterium; Nostoc flagelliforme; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; FATTY ACIDS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THERMAL EFFECTS;

CYANOBACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE RANGES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC FLAGELLIFORME; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 4444315231     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2004.01.018     Document Type: Article

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