Bioremediation: A genuine technology to remediate radionuclides from the environment

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 349-360

  Prakash, Dhan ^a,b   Gabani, Prashant ^c   Chandel, Anuj K ^d   Ronen, Zeev ^b   Singh, Om V ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMASS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSORPTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL SURFACE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; OXIDATION; PROTEOMICS; REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84879016225     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12059     Document Type: Article

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