Degradation of Substituted Phenylurea Herbicides by Arthrobacter globiformis Strain D47 and Characterization of a Plasmid-Associated Hydrolase Gene, puhA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2270-2275

  Turnbull, Gillian A ^a   Ousley, Margaret ^a   Walker, Allan ^a   Shaw, Eve ^a   Morgan, J Alun W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE; DIURON; HERBICIDE; HYDROLASE; PHENYLUREA HYDROLASE;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOREMEDIATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DIURON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HERBICIDES; HYDROLASES; MUTAGENESIS; PHENYLUREA COMPOUNDS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035349911     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.5.2270-2275.2001     Document Type: Article

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