Population Dynamics and Acetate Utilization Kinetics of Two Different Species of Phototrophic Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria in a Continuous Co-culture System

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-87

  Okubo, Yoko ^a   Hiraishi, Akira ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

lower fatty acids; phototrophic bacteria; Rhodobacter; Rhodopseudomonas; substrate affinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349917484     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.82     Document Type: Article

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