Agar (-is, n., vulgo et agar-agar dictum) est substantia gelatinosa, qua microbiologi utuntur ad microorganismos colendos. Agar est non ramificatum polysaccharidum e cellularibus nonnullarum specierum algarum rubrarum membranis profectum.^[1] Nonnulla agara edulia sunt.^[2]

Notae

Bibliographia

• "Agar-agar, carraghénane et goémon blanc" in Les Cahiers de la gastronomie n° 11 (2012?)
• Balfour, Edward. 1871. Agar. Cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific: products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures. Scottish and Adelphi Presses.
• Davidson, Alan. 2006. The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192806819.

Nexus interni

• Robertus Koch
• Microbiologia

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