Starch hydrolysing Bacillus halodurans isolates from a Kenyan soda lake

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 823-828

  Hashim, Suhaila O ^a,b   Delgado, Osvaldo ^a,c   Hatti Kaul, Rajni ^a   Mulaa, Francis J ^b   Mattiasson, Bo ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c PLANTA PILOTO DE PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES MICROBIOLÓGICOS PROIMI CONICET   (Argentina)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Alkaliphiles; Amylase; Bacillus halodurans; Soda lake

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; FRESH WATER; STARCH;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

AMYLASES; BACILLUS; FRESH WATER; HYDROLYSIS; KENYA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARCH; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS HALODURANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 3342881954     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BILE.0000025885.19910.d7     Document Type: Article

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