Degradation of 3-chlorobenzoate under low-oxygen conditions in pure and mixed cultures of the anoxygenic photoheterotroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris DCP3 and an aerobic Alcaligenes species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-137

  Krooneman, Janneke ^a   Van Den Akker, Sytske ^a   Pedro Gomes, Teresa M ^a   Forney, Larry J ^a   Gottschal, Jan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; RNA 16S;

ALCALIGENES; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOGENATION; ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 0032908354     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.131-137.1999     Document Type: Article

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