Prospects for using combined engineered bacterial enzymes and plant systems to rhizoremediate polychlorinated biphenyls

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 907-915

  Sylvestre, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 84874732993     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12007     Document Type: Article

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