Enhanced degradation of phenoxyacetic acid in soil by horizontal transfer of the tfdA gene encoding a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid dioxygenase
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- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
- Vol. 35 (1) , 75-84
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00790.x
Abstract
Few studies have investigated the possible impact of in situ gene transfer on the degradation of xenobiotic compounds in natural environments. In thiKeywords
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