Profile of bacterial genera associated with cotton from low endotoxin and high endotoxin growing regions

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 233-242

  Chun, David T W ^a   Perkins Jr , Henry H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton; Cotton dust; Endotoxin; Fatty acid analysis; Gas chromatography; Gram negative bacteria; Gram positive bacteria; Identification; Methodology; Sticky cotton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COTTON; PLANT-BACTERIA ASSOCIATION;

USA;

BACILLUS; GOSSYPIUM; MALVACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0031411608     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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