Isolation and characterization of atrazine mineralizing Bacillus subtilis strain HB-6.

Atrazine is a widely used herbicide with great environmental concern due to its high potential to contaminate soil and waters. An atrazine-degrading bacterial strain HB-6 was isolated from industrial wastewater and the 16S rRNA gene sequencing identified HB-6 as a Bacillus subtilis. PCR assays indic...

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Main Authors: Jinhua Wang, Lusheng Zhu, Qi Wang, Jun Wang, Hui Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4169520?pdf=render