Dechlorination of atrazine by a Rhizobium sp. isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 862-866

  Bouquard, Corinne ^a   Ouazzani, Jamal ^b   Promé, Jean Claude ^b   Michel Briand, Yvon ^a   Plésiat, Patrick ^a,c  

^a Lab Physiologie et Pharmacologie   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ATRAZINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DECHLORINATION; ENZYME ASSAY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROXYLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALIZATION; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; PSEUDOMONAS SP. ADP; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 0031025676     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.862-866.1997     Document Type: Article

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