Engineered exploitation of microbial potential
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Engineered exploitation of microbial potential
Amir Aharoni, Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. The size of the microbial world is beyond our imagination. In last year’s crystal ball article, Tom Curtis compared the size of the microbial world to the size of the universe pointing out that the number of microorganisms in the world is billion...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Microbial Biotechnology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1751-7915
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2009.00090_17.x