Environmentally directed mutations and their impact on industrial biotransformation and fermentation processes

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 248-251

  Zelder, Oskar ^a   Hauer, Bernhard ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMOSTAT; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034130090     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00084-9     Document Type: Review

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