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Agar yield, quality and standing crop biomass of Gelidium serrulatum, Gelidium floridanum, and Pterocladia capillacea in Venezuela
| Title: | Agar yield, quality and standing crop biomass of Gelidium serrulatum, Gelidium floridanum, and Pterocladia capillacea in Venezuela. |
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| Name(s): |
Lemus, Andres, creator Bird, Kimon T., creator Kapraun, D. Fritz, creator Koehn, F. E., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1991 | |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | |
| Extent: | 12 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3355148 (digitool), FADT3355148 (IID), fau:6672 (fedora), 10.1016/S0268-005X(09)80105-7 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Venezuela and the nearby islands have natural resources of three agarophyte species in the Gelidiales: Gelidiumserrulatum, Gelidiumfloridanum and Pterocladiacapillacea. Standingcropbiomass for two of these species, G.serrulatum and P.capillacea, varies between 1.4–0.5 and kg dry wt/m2. The agaryield from G.serrulatum and G.floridanum ranges from 12 to 34%, depending on the method of extraction. Agar extraction of both species directly into 0.25 N NaOH provided significantly higher gel strengths (>1100 g/cm2) than either extraction in water or using an alkali pretreatment process of 1.0 N NaOH. The final published version of this manuscript is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0268005X and may be cited as: Lemus, A., Bird, K., Kapraun, D. F., & Koehn, F. (1991). Agar yield, quality and standing crop biomass of Gelidium serrulatum, Gelidium floridanum, and Pterocladia capillacea in Venezuela. Food Hydrocolloids, 5(5), 469-479. doi:10.1016/S0268-005X(09)80105-7 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #897. |
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| Subject(s): |
Seaweed Marine algae Agar |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3355148 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0268-005X(09)80105-7 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1991 Elsevier Ltd. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
