Bacterial reduction of selenite to elemental selenium

Chemical Geology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 199-204

  Garbisu, Carlos ^a   Ishii, Takahisa ^a   Leighton, Terrance ^a   Buchanan, Bob B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL REDUCTION; BIOREMEDIATION; DETOXIFICATION; REDUCTION; SELENITE; SELENIUM;

EID: 0030428512     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2541(96)00056-3     Document Type: Article

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