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Microbiological Decomposition of Litter

Nature volume 171, pages 794–795 (1953)Cite this article

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THE decomposition of tree litter has been the object of extensive chemical investigations; but the organisms involved in this process have attracted much less attention. Nevertheless, it appeared of interest to investigate which is the organism opening the attack on dead leaves falling from, or having fallen from, different trees in autumn.

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  1. Berkhout, Chr., thesis, Utrecht, 55 (1923).

  2. Wieringa, Report of Proc. Fourth Int. Congr. of Microbiology, 482 (1947).

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  1. Microbiological Laboratory, Agricultural University, Wageningen

    JAN SMIT & K. T. WIERINGA

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SMIT, J., WIERINGA, K. Microbiological Decomposition of Litter. Nature 171, 794–795 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171794a0

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