Engineering of improved microbes and enzymes for bioremediation

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-141

  Chen, Wilfred ^a   Brühlmann, Fredi ^a   Richins, Richard D ^a   Mulchandani, Ashok ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENZYME; HEAVY METAL;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOENGINEERING; DESULFURIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0344359810     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(99)80023-8     Document Type: Article

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