eprintid: 3326 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 65 dir: disk0/00/00/33/26 datestamp: 2011-10-29 09:01:28 lastmod: 2011-10-29 09:01:28 status_changed: 2011-10-29 09:01:28 type: article metadata_visibility: show contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Nene, Y L creators_name: Sheila, V K icrisatcreators_name: Nene, Y L icrisatcreators_name: Sheila, V K affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru) country: INDIA title: A potential substitute for agar in routine cultural work on fungi and bacteria ispublished: pub subjects: s1.1 subjects: s2.15 full_text_status: restricted abstract: 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.................. date: 1994 date_type: published publication: Indian Journal of Mycology & Plant Pathology volume: 24 number: 2 publisher: Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology pagerange: 159-163 refereed: TRUE issn: 0303-4097 related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+A+Potential+Substitute+for+Agar+in+Routine+Cultural+Work+on+Fungi+and+Bacteria&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 related_url_type: author citation: 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 document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/3326/1/JA_1739.pdf