Research Article

The Breakdown of Naphthalene by a Soil Bacterium

Journal of General Microbiology 1953; 8(2):273 · https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-8-2-273

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Abstract

SUMMARY: A Gram-negative motile bacterium isolated from soil can grow with naphthalene as sole carbon source and produces from it D-trans-1:2-dihydro-1:2-dihydroxynaphthalene and salicylic acid.