Desiccation tolerance in green algae: Implications of physiological adaptation and structural requirements

Algae: Nutrition, Pollution Control and Energy Sources

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-56

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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