Abstract:
:Wastewater bioreactors have been used to treat domestic and industrial waste for nearly a century. Development of molecular tools such as PCR and DNA microarrays have enabled identification and characterization of some of the microbes in these bioreactors; however, molecular characterization of the microbes is still in its infancy, and only a few of the molecular tools have been applied to improving performance of wastewater bioreactors at the commercial level. Several new plasmids and enzymes have been isolated from wastewater bioreactors. There is enormous opportunity to use the microbes from wastewater for industrial bioprocesses.
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Curr Opin Microbioljournal_title
Current opinion in microbiologyauthors
Bramucci M,Nagarajan Vdoi
10.1016/j.mib.2006.04.005subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-06-01 00:00:00pages
275-8issue
3eissn
1369-5274issn
1879-0364pii
S1369-5274(06)00053-1journal_volume
9pub_type
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