Evidence for the antifouling potentials of marine macroalgae sargassum wightii

Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-162

  Iyapparaj, Palanisamy ^a   Ramasubburayan, Ramasamy ^a   Raman, Thulasi ^a   Das, Narayana ^b   Kumar, Pradeep ^b   Palavesam, Arunachalam ^a   Immanuel, Grasian ^a  

^a MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NAVAL MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Bioactive compound; Fouling; S. wightii; Substrata

Indexed keywords

ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PERNA; PERNA INDICA; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM WIGHTII;

EID: 84860848193     PISSN: 19950772     EISSN: 19981090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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