Exopolysaccharide and poly-β-hydroxybutyrate coproduction in two Rhizobium meliloti strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-26

  Tavernier, Patricia ^a   Portais, Jean Charles ^a   Nava Saucedo, José Edmundo ^a   Courtois, Josiane ^a   Courtois, Bernard ^a   Barbotin, Jean Noël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; CARBON; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; NITROGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIODEGRADATION; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031035646     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.1.21-26.1997     Document Type: Article

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