Degradation of the rubber in truck tires by a strain of Nocardia

Biodegradation

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 405-413

  Tsuchii, Akio ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Tokiwa, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

microbial activity; natural rubber; truck tires

Indexed keywords

NOCARDIA;

EID: 0030427556     PISSN: 09239820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00056424     Document Type: Article

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