Synergistic degradation of linuron by a bacterial consortium and isolation of a single linuron-degrading Variovorax strain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1532-1541

  Dejonghe, Winnie ^a,d   Berteloot, Ellen ^a   Goris, Johan ^b   Boon, Nico ^a   Crul, Katrien ^a   Maertens, Siska ^a   Höfte, Monica ^a   De Vos, Paul ^b   Verstraete, Willy ^a   Top, Eva M ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA; STRAIN;

LINURON DEGRADATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

3,4 DIHYDROCHLOROANILINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBON; HYDROXYLAMINE; LINURON; N,O DIMETHYLHYDROXYLAMINE; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DELFTIA ACIDOVORAN; ENERGY; HYPHOMICROBIUM; HYPHOMICROBIUM SULFONIVORAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; SPECIES; VARIOVORAX;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CULTURE MEDIA; ECOSYSTEM; HERBICIDES; LINURON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DELFTIA; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; HYPHOMICROBIUM; HYPHOMICROBIUM SULFONIVORANS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; VARIOVORAX;

EID: 0037336952     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.3.1532-1541.2003     Document Type: Article

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