Vitamin-C content of some marine macroalgae from Gulf of Mannar marine biosphere reserve, southeast coast of India

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 343-346

  Anantharaman, Perumal ^a   Devi, Gopalraj Karthikai ^a   Manivannan, Karunamoorthy ^a   Balasubramanian, Thangavel ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Gulf of Mannar; Macroalgae; Vitamin C content

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; GELIDIELLA ACEROSA; PADINA PAVONIA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA; ULVA; ULVA RETICULATA;

EID: 79961076434     PISSN: 09725210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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