Isolation of a selected microbial consortium from a pesticide-contaminated mix-load site soil capable of degrading the herbicides atrazine and alachlor

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3056-3065

  Chirnside, Anastasia E M ^a   Ritter, William F ^a   Radosevich, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alachlor; Alcaligenes; Atrazine; Isolation; Providencia; Pseudomonas; Selected microbial consortium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; HERBICIDES; ORGANIC CARBON; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ALCALIGENES; ISOLATION; PSEUDOMONAS; SELECTED MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM;

SOILS;

BIODEGRADATION; HERBICIDE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; READING [PENNSYLVANIA]; UNITED STATES;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES; PROVIDENCIA; PROVIDENCIA RUSTIGIANII; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS MARGINALIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 34548593407     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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