Water and oxygen dependence of Pseudomonas putida growing in silica sand capillary fringes

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 532-540

  Jost, Daniel ^a   Winter, Josef ^a   Gallert, Claudia ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH ASSAY; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CAPILLARY FRINGE; CELL DENSITY; CONSUMPTION RATES; GLASS BEAD; HELE-SHAW CELLS; INTERFACE REGIONS; MAXIMUM VALUES; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RESPIRATION RATE; RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY; ROUGH SURFACES; SMOOTH SURFACE; WATER ACTIVITY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER POTENTIAL; WATER SATURATIONS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SILICA; WATER LEVELS;

SILICA SAND;

AGAR; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; CAPILLARY FRINGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH; INOCULATION; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATION; SAND; SILICA; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 79960112524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0092     Document Type: Article

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