A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria

Nene, Y L and Sheila, V K (1994) A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria. Indian Journal of Mycology & Plant Pathology, 24 (2). pp. 159-163. ISSN 0303-4097

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Abstract

Agar was first used by Fanny Eilshemius Hessc in 1881 (Hitchens and Leikind 1939) as a solidifying agent in the preparation of bacteriological culture media. Subsequently, agar has been used in Increasing quantities in microbiological laboratories all over the world. Agar is a gelatinous complex polsaccharide obtain from such marine algae as Gelidiella sp Gracilaria sp..................

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Subjects:	Mandate crops > Chickpea Others > Plant Pathology
Depositing User:	Mr Charan Sai Ch
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2011 09:01
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URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3326
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