Free-living heterotrophic nitrogen-fixing bacteria isolated from fuel-contaminated antarctic soils

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5181-5185

  Eckford, Ruth ^a   Cook, Fred D ^a   Saul, David ^a   Aislabie, Jackie ^a   Foght, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FUELS; BIODEGRADATION; HYDROCARBONS; NITROGEN FIXATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

FUEL VAPORS;

BACTERIA;

HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN; VOLATILE AGENT;

BACTERIUM;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; SYMBIOSIS; VOLATILIZATION;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FUEL OILS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 0036793748     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.10.5181-5185.2002     Document Type: Article

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