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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Ring-cleaving cyanuric acid amidohydrolase activity in the atrazine-mineralizing Ralstonia basilensis M91-3

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Pages 387-396 | Received 13 Jun 2005, Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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