Colonization and disintegration of tire rubber by a colonial mutant of Nocardia.
Forty-seven percent of a tire tread strip with a natural rubber content of 100 phr (parts per hundred of rubber) was completely mineralized by a mutant strain, Rc, of the rubber-degrading organism, Nocardia sp. strain 835A, while 34% was disintegrated into very small particles after a cultivation period of 8 weeks.
Tsuchii
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Applied Microbiology Department, National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaragi 305-0046, Japan.
Tokiwa
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