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Azoreductase and dye detoxification activities of Bacillus velezensis strain AB.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Jan 2008
Bafana Amit, Chakrabarti Tapan, Devi Sivanesan Saravana
Abstract excerpt
Azo dyes are known to be a very important and widely used class of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. Although lot of research has been carried out for their removal from industrial effluents, very little attention is given to changes in their toxicity and mutagenicity during the treatment processes. Present investigation describes isolation of a Bacillus velezensis culture capable of degrading azo dye Direct Red...
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