Fermented whey - An inexpensive feed source for a laboratory-scale selenium-bioremediation reactor system inoculated with Thauera selenatis

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 682-685

  Bledsoe, T L ^a   Cantafio, A W ^a   Macy, J M ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT; WHEY;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; LACTOSE; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; SELENIUM;

EID: 0032998687     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530051452     Document Type: Article

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