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AN essential prerequisite to obtaining predictable growth of algae under laboratory conditions is the establishment of axenic cultures, but this is often extremely difficult to achieve. The successful use of potassium tellurite as a bacteriostatic agent1 in the pure isolation of representative aquatic fungi from the orders Blasto-cladiales, Chytridiales4 and Saprolegniales, using material direct from Nature which was sometimes highly contaminated with bacteria, suggested that algae might also respond to this treatment ; and the promising results obtained are reported in this communication.
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DUCKER, S., WILLOUGHBY, L. Potassium Tellurite as a Bacteriostatic Agent in isolating Algae. Nature 202, 210 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202210a0
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