relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/ title: A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria creator: Nene, Y L creator: Sheila, V K subject: Chickpea subject: Plant Pathology description: 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.................. publisher: Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology date: 1994 type: Article type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/1/JA_1739.pdf identifier: 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