Memoir of a 1949 railway journey with photosynthetic bacteria

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-96

  Gest, Howard ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria; Fixation of molecular nitrogen; Photoproduction of molecular hydrogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032722842     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006257628672     Document Type: Article

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