Pseudomonas putida: A cosmopolitan opportunist par excellence

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 779-781

  Timmis, Kenneth N ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOREMEDIATION; EDITORIAL; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0036937672     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00365.x     Document Type: Editorial

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