The impact of copper, nitrate and carbon status on the emission of nitrous oxide by two species of bacteria with biochemically distinct denitrification pathways

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1788-1800

  Felgate, Heather ^a   Giannopoulos, Georgios ^a   Sullivan, Matthew J ^a   Gates, Andrew J ^a   Clarke, Thomas A ^a   Baggs, Elizabeth ^b   Rowley, Gary ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COPPER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ACHROMOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PHENOTYPE;

ACHROMOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; CARBON; COPPER; DENITRIFICATION; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PHENOTYPE;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS;

EID: 84863185441     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02789.x     Document Type: Article

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