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PJB-1989-43
Phycochemical studies on fatty acid composition in caulerpa (bryosidophyceae).
Abstract
Four green sea weds , caulerpa faridii nizamuddin , C. racemosa (forsskal) J. agardh , C. scalpelliformis(R.brown) C. agardh and C. taxifolia (Vahl) C. agardh , collected from buleji near Karachi were investigated .phycochemically by gas chromatography –mass spectrometry . saturated fatty acids were more (81.3- 93.0%) than unsaturated ones with palmitic acid as the major component (76.8-87.9%) . oleic was the most commonly occurring unsaturated acid (2.5-4.5%) with diethenoides found in small quantity (1.8-3.7%). C. taxifolia differed in its fatty acid composition with other species.
