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. 1995 Aug;61(8):3185-8.
doi: 10.1128/aem.61.8.3185-3188.1995.

Degradation of p-xylene by a denitrifying enrichment culture

A Häner  1 , P Höhener, J Zeyer
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Degradation of p-xylene by a denitrifying enrichment culture

A Häner et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1995 Aug.

Abstract

Microbial cultures enriched from a diesel fuel-contaminated aquifer were able to grow on p-xylene under denitrifying conditions. The oxidation of p-xylene to CO2 was coupled to the reduction of NO3-. The enrichment cultures also grew on toluene and m-xylene, but they did not degrade benzene, ethylbenzene, and o-xylene.

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