Nitrification and autotrophic nitrifying bacteria in a hydrocarbon- polluted soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4008-4013

  Deni, Jamal ^a   Penninckx, Michel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM SULFATE; HYDROCARBON; NITRATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INHIBITION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT;

NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS;

EID: 0032824379     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4008-4013.1999     Document Type: Article

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