MicrobiologyThe ISME JournalPeer-reviewed
Microbial degradation of a widely used model polyethylene is restricted to medium- and long-chain alkanes and their oxidized derivatives
Ronja Marlonsdotter Sandholm, Gordon Jacob Boehlich, Ørjan Dahl…·Sabina Leanti La Rosa
The paper identifies microbial communities capable of degrading medium- and long-chain alkanes and their oxidized derivatives in polyethylene, revealing the presence of these compounds in the model PE material.
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