%0 Journal Article
%@ 0303-4097
%A Nene, Y L
%A Sheila, V K
%D 1994
%F icrisat:3326
%I Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology
%J Indian Journal of Mycology & Plant Pathology
%N 2
%P 159-163
%T A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/
%V 24
%X 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..................