Pristine environments harbor a new group of oligotrophic 2,4- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-degrading bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2266-2272

  Kamagata, Yoichi ^a,b,f   Fulthorpe, Roberta R ^a,c   Tamura, Katsunori ^a,b,d   Takami, Hideto ^a,b,e   Forney, Larry J ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROFLORA;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; HAWAIIA; LURIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; VARIOVORAX; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031009131     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2266-2272.1997     Document Type: Article

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