%D 1994
%L icrisat3326
%I Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology
%T A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria
%P 159-163
%V 24
%N 2
%A Y L Nene
%A V K Sheila
%J Indian Journal of Mycology & Plant Pathology
%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..................