Characterization of microbial isolates from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Test Area North aquifer: Identifying potential enzymatic pathways for toluene oxidation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 353, Issue , 2002, Pages 279-285

  Watwood, Mary E ^a   Keener, William K ^b   Smith, William A ^a,b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES; OXIDATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; CONTAMINATION PLUME; ENRICHMENT EXPERIMENTS; IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; STERILE FILTRATIONS;

TOLUENE;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FILTRATION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; INHIBITION; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; PIGMENT; SUBSTRATE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 84870860912     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2353-1.279     Document Type: Article

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