Dr. Susana Castro Sowinski is currently working as associate professor in Faculty of Sciences, University of the Republic, Uruguay. Her publications are: RESEARCH ARTICLES: 1. Batista S, Castro S, Aguilar OM and Martinez-Drets G. 1992. Induction of C4-dicarboxylate transport genes by external stimuli in Rhizobium meliloti. Can. J. Microbiol. 38: 51-55.  2. Batista S, Castro S, Ubalde MC and Martinez-Drets G. 1994. Effect of divalent cations on succinate transport in R. tropici, R. leguminosarum bv. phaseoli and R. loti. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 10: 249 - 255.3. Castro S and Cantera AMB. 1995. Rapid and inexpensive procedure for proteolytic activity determination. J. Biotech. Edu. 23: 42-43.BOOK CHAPTERS:1. Castro-Sowinski S and Okon, Y. Physiological features of Azospirillum in the rhizosphere. En: Biología del Suelo: transformaciones de la materia orgánica, usos y biodiversidad de los organismosedáficos.  Eds.: M. A. Monzón de 2. Asconegui, I. E. García de Salamone y S. S. Miyazaki. Editorial Facultad de Agronomía; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Primera edición. Pp 33-37. 3. Castro-Sowinski S, Burdman S, Matan O and Okon Y. 2009. Natural functions of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates. En: Plastics from bacteria: natural functions and applications.  Microbiology monographs. Eds: Chen, Guo-Qiang. Editorial Springer.  Pp 39-56. ISBN: 978-3-642-03286-8.

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