Degradation of trimethylbenzene isomers by an enrichment culture under N2O-reducing conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1171-1174

  Häner, Andreas ^a,b   Höhener, Patrick ^a   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BMG Engineering Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,3 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,3,5 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIESEL FUEL; META XYLENE; NITROUS OXIDE; PARA XYLENE; TOLUENE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REDUCTION;

EID: 0343416794     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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