Microbial Degradation of s-Triazine Herbicides

The Triazine Herbicides

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 301-328

  Mandelbaum, Raphi T ^a   Sadowsky, Michael J ^b   Wackett, Lawrence P ^b  

^a LDD Advanced Technologies   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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