Kinetics and yields of pesticide biodegradation at low substrate concentrations and under conditions restricting assimilable organic carbon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1306-1313

  Helbling, Damian E ^a,b   Hammes, Frederik ^a   Egli, Thomas ^a,c   Kohler, Hans Peter E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c Microbes in Water GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BIODEGRADATION PROCESS; CRITICAL MEASUREMENTS; DEGRADATION POTENTIAL; PESTICIDE BIODEGRADATION; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS; SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION; TRACE CONCENTRATIONS;

BIODEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROWTH KINETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; PESTICIDES;

SUBSTRATES;

BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84893375825     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03622-13     Document Type: Article

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