Identification of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin from photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1151-1154

  Lorquin, Jean ^a   Molouba, Flore ^b   Dreyfus, Bernard L ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANTHAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; RHODOVIOLASCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031017307     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.1151-1154.1997     Document Type: Article

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