Survival in soil of different toluene-degrading Pseudomonas strains after solvent shock

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-42

  Huertas, María José ^a   Duque, Estrella ^a   Marqués, Silvia ^a   Ramos, Juan L ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; TOLUENE;

SOIL MICROORAGNISM; SOLVENT; SURVIVAL; TOLUENA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIODEGRADATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMIDITY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL MICROFLORA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS MENDOCINA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0031985658     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.38-42.1998     Document Type: Article

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