Sampling the seagrass (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Sampling the seagrass

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Beautiful to look at, hard to sample: Measuring metabolites like sucrose and polyphenols in seawater is difficult. The scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen had to develop a special method to deal with the large amounts of salt in seawater that make measurements of metabolites so difficult.

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HYDRA Marine Sciences GmbH

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