Arsenic-tolerant, arsenite-oxidising bacterial strains in the contaminated soils of West Bengal, India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 1006-1014

  Majumder, Aparajita ^a   Bhattacharyya, K ^a   Bhattacharyya, S ^a   Kole, S C ^a  

^a BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

Author keywords

AoxB; Arsenic oxidising bacteria; Bacillus and Geobacillus; Soil

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; AOXB; AS OXIDATION(III); CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; CONTAMINATED SOILS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; OXIDATION; REMEDIATION; RNA; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

GENES;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENITE OXIDASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARSENIC; ARSENITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

ACHROMOBACTER; AOXB GENE; ARSENITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; INDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VARIOVORAX;

AOXB; ARSENIC OXIDISING BACTERIA; BACILLUS AND GEOBACILLUS; SOIL;

ARSENIC; ARSENITES; BACILLUS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84880655163     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.068     Document Type: Article

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