Use of sublimation to prepare solid microbial media with water-insoluble substrates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 439-442

  Alley, Jeremy F ^a   Brown, Lewis R ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0033986008     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.1.439-442.2000     Document Type: Article

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