Chlorophyll a extraction from freshwater algae - A reevaluation

Biologia

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 270-275

  Schagerl, Michael ^a   Künzl, Gabriela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Extraction; HPLC; Phytoplankton; Sonication; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 50849111431     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-007-0048-x     Document Type: Article

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