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Short Note: Biodegradation of chlorobenzoates by Actinomycetes

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Of the nine actinomycete strains screened for their ability to grow on isomeric chlorobenzoates (Cba), Corynebacterium liquefaciens, a sewage isolate, was able to maximally metabolize 3.2mM 2- and 3-Cba in presence of 0.25mM glucose as co-substrate. The degradation of 2-Cba and 3-Cba was 70.3% and 79.37% (w/v), respectively, under optimized conditions.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar –, 143005, India

    Harvinder Singh Saini, Bhupinder Singh Chadha, Shobha Bhaskar, Surinder Singh, Raman Kumar & Minakshi Mahajan

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Saini, H.S., Chadha, B.S., Bhaskar, S. et al. Short Note: Biodegradation of chlorobenzoates by Actinomycetes. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 14, 785–786 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008852503617

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