Potential application spectrum of microbial proteases for clean and green industrial production

Energy, Ecology and Environment - Tập 2 Số 6 - Trang 370-386 - 2017
Satbir Singh1, Bijender Kumar Bajaj1
1School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, Jammu 180006, India

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