Nitrous oxide production in soil isolates of nitrate-ammonifying bacteria

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-71

  Stremińska, Marta A ^a   Felgate, Heather ^b   Rowley, Gary ^b   Richardson, David J ^b   Baggs, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER;

EID: 84856736213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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