Characterisation of new strains of atrazine-degrading Nocardioides sp. isolated from Japanese riverbed sediment using naturally derived river ecosystem

Pest Management Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 340-349

  Satsuma, Koji ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrazine; atzC; Degradation; Nocardioides; River sediment; trzN

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE;

ATRAZINE; DEGRADATION; MICROCOSM; RIVER; SEDIMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; SEDIMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NOCARDIOIDES; NOCARDIOIDES SP.; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP. ADP;

EID: 33645663558     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1172     Document Type: Article

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