Morphological and cultural characterization of some strains of unicellular algae of the genus Prototheca sampled from mastitic cow milk

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-40

  Rapuntean, Sorin ^a   Rapuntean, Gheorghe ^a   Fit, Nicodim ^a   Cuc, Cosmina ^a   Nadas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Algae; Cow; Cultivation; Mastitic milk; Morphology; Prototheca

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; MORUS (PLANT); PROTOTHECA; PROTOTHECA ZOPFII; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 67649261486     PISSN: 0255965X     EISSN: 18424309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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