Nitrate pollution and its remediation

Environmental Bioremediation Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 353-389

  Dwivedi, U N ^a   Mishra, Seema ^b   Singh, Poorinima ^a   Tripathi, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^b CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-34793-4_16     Document Type: Chapter

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