Plastic Degrading Bacteria ... (10.1126/science.aad6359; 10.1126/science.aaf2853)?

Rashid Nazir @Rashid_Nazir

03 March 2016 1 8K Report

My life time dream area of research;

i wonder how the knowledge of microbial ecology can be used to this particular environmental issue?

along with these papers, can co-metabolism be another and potentially more efficient strategy?

Rashid Nazir

@Cristiano Pedroso Roussado:

i wonder how the knowledge of microbial ecology can be used to this particular environmental issue?

along with these papers, can co-metabolism be another and potentially more efficient strategy?

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