Relative importance of trophic group concentrations during anaerobic degradation of volatile fatty acids

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 5009-5016

  Voolapalli, Ravi K ^a   Stuckey, David C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FORMIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GROWTH RATE; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032722069     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.5009-5016.1999     Document Type: Article

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