Nitrate reduction by fungi in marine oxygen-depleted laboratory microcosms

Botanica Marina

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 469-474

  Jebaraj, Cathrine S ^a   Raghukumar, Chandralata ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Arabian Sea; denitrification; fungi; microcosms

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; FUNGUS; LABORATORY METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 77958061750     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: 14374323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2010.046     Document Type: Article

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