@article{icrisat3326,
            year = {1994},
           title = {A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria},
          volume = {24},
          number = {2},
           pages = {159--163},
          author = {Y L Nene and V K Sheila},
       publisher = {Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology},
         journal = {Indian Journal of Mycology \& Plant Pathology},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/},
        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.................. 
}
}