Extremophiles: Sustainable resource of natural compounds-extremolytes

Sustainable Biotechnology: Sources of Renewable Energy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 279-294

  Kumar, Raj ^a   Patel, Dev Dutt ^a   Bansal, Deen Dayal ^a   Mishra, Saurabh ^a   Mohammed, Anis ^a   Arora, Rajesh ^a   Sharma, Ashok ^a   Sharma, Rakesh Kumar ^a   Tripathi, Rajendra Prasad ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Extremophiles; Piezophiles; Radioprotectors; Radioresistant; Thermophiles; Xerophiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952560478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3295-9_15     Document Type: Chapter

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