Sphingomonas from petroleum-contaminated soils in Shenfu, China and their PAHs degradation abilities

Abstract Members of the Sphingomonas genus are often isolated from petroleum-contaminated soils due to their unique abilities to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are important for in situ bioremediation. In this study, a combined phenotypic and genotypic approach using streptom...

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Main Authors: Lisha Zhou, Hui Li, Ying Zhang, Siqin Han, Hui Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2016-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822016000200271&lng=en&tlng=en