Screening of different contaminated environments for polyhydroxyalkanoates- producing bacterial strains

Biologia - Section Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 650-656

  Ur Rehman, Shafiq ^a   Jamil, Nazia ^a   Husnain, Shahida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Conserved gene; PhaC gene; Polyhydroxyalkanoates; Pseudomonas sp; Sewage water

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 35448937564     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-007-0144-y     Document Type: Article

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