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High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

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U Hoßfeld¹, T Junker²

¹Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Berggasse 7, D-07745, Jena.

|August 13, 2016

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