Production of Clostridium bifermentans spores as inoculum for bioremediation of nitroaromatic contaminants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2100-2104

  Sembries, Sabine ^a   Crawford, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL VIABILITY; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM BIFERMENTANS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030895825     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.5.2100-2104.1997     Document Type: Article

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