2,4-Dichrolophenoxyacetic Acid-degrading Genes from Bacteria Isolated from Soil in Japan: Spread of Burkholderia cepacia RASC-type Degrading Genes Harbored on Large Plasmids

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-156

  Sakai, Yoriko ^a   Ogawa, Naoto ^a   Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Sugahara, Kazuo ^a   Miyashita, Kiyotaka ^a   Hasebe, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

2,4 D degrading bacteria; plasmid; tfdA; tfdB; tfdC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989261326     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.145     Document Type: Article

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