Environmentally friendly bleaching of cotton using laccases

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 66-69

  Pereira, L ^a   Bastos, C ^b   Tzanov, T ^b   Cavaco Paulo, A ^b   Guebitz, G M ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bleaching of cotton; Laccase; Trametes hirsuta

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; TRAMETES; TRAMETES HIRSUTA;

EID: 29244447760     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-005-0004-3     Document Type: Article

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