<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Y L</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Nene</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">V K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Sheila</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Agar was first used by Fanny Eilshemius&#13;
Hessc in 1881 (Hitchens and Leikind 1939)&#13;
as a solidifying agent in the preparation of&#13;
bacteriological culture media. Subsequently,&#13;
agar has been used in Increasing quantities in microbiological laboratories all over the&#13;
world. Agar is a gelatinous complex &#13;
polsaccharide obtain from such marine&#13;
algae as Gelidiella sp Gracilaria sp.................. &#13;
</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Chickpea</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Plant Pathology</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">1994</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>