http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3326 2011-10-29T09:01:28Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/ A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria Nene, Y L Sheila, V K Chickpea Plant Pathology 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.................. Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology 1994 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/1/JA_1739.pdf 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 info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage