Characterization of a soil bacterial consortium capable of degrading diesel fuel

Microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons: an environmental perspective.

Robert Atlas · Microbiological Reviews · 1981 · 913 citations

Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Microbiology +16

Substrate interactions of benzene, toluene, and para-xylene during microbial degradation by pure cultures and mixed culture aquifer slurries

Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Timothy M. Vogel · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1991 · 350 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology +16

Enumeration and characterization of the soil microflora from hydrocarbon-contaminated soil sites able to mineralize polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)

Matthias Kästner, M. Breuer-Jammali, Bernd Mahro · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · 1994 · 319 citations

Agriculture, Earth Sciences, Soil Sciences +16

Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by pure strains and by defined strain associations: inhibition phenomena and cometabolism

M. Bouchez, Denis Blanchet, J-P. Vandecasteele · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · 1995 · 315 citations

Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +12

Microbial metabolism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: isolation and characterization of a pyrene-degrading bacterium

Michael A. Heitkamp, Wirt Franklin, Carl E. Cerniglia · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1988 · 304 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +17