Growth yields in bacterial denitrification and nitrate ammonification

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1420-1424

  Strohm, Tobin O ^a   Griffin, Ben ^a,c   Zumft, Walter G ^b   Schink, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; FREE ENERGY; GROWTH KINETICS; NITRATES;

AEROBIC RESPIRATION; AMMONIFICATION; GROWTH YIELD; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RESPIRATION SYSTEMS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

ACETIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; NITRATE;

AMMONIFICATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOENERGETICS; DENITRIFICATION; DRY MATTER; GROWTH RATE; NITRATE; REDUCTION; RESPIRATION;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; AMMONIFICATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INNER CELL MASS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; REDUCTION; SULFUR BACTERIUM; SULFUROSPIRILLUM DELEYIANUM; SYNTHESIS; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

ACETATES; AMMONIA; CULTURE MEDIA; FORMATES; HYDROGEN; NITRATES; NITRITES; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SULFUROSPIRILLUM DELEYIANUM; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 33947193902     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02508-06     Document Type: Article

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