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High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

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L Fink¹, F Länger²

¹Institut für Pathologie und Zytologie, Überregionalen Gemeinschaftspraxis (ÜGP), Forsthausstr. 1, 35578, Wetzlar, Deutschland. fink@patho-wetzlar.de.

|September 2, 2015

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