Transformation of o-xylene to o-methyl benzoic acid by a denitrifying enrichment culture using toluene as the primary substrate.

abstract：:The aerobic biodegradation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wastewater that contains mixtures of highly concentrated methylhydrazine/hydrazine, citric acid and their reaction product was studied on a laboratory-scale fixed film trickle-bed reactor. The degrading organisms, Achromobacter sp., Rho...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Nwankwoala AU,Egiebor NO,Nyavor K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their amphipathic nature, biosurfactants are multifunctional molecules that have considerable potential in several industries, especially the petroleum industry. In this study, the commercial production of a biosurfactant from Pseudomonas cepacia CCT6659 grown on industrial waste was investigated in a semi-indu...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Soares da Silva RCF,de Almeida DG,Brasileiro PPF,Rufino RD,de Luna JM,Sarubbo LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hexazinone-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from soil by enrichment culture technique, and identified as Pseudomonas sp. and Enterobacter cloacap, respectively. The two purified isolates, designated as WFX-1 and WFX-2, could rapidly degrade hexazinone with half-lives of 3.08 and 2.95 days in mineral salts...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wang X,Zhou S,Wang H,Yang S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metamifop is universally used in agriculture as a post-emergence aryloxyphenoxy propionate herbicide (AOPP), however its microbial degradation mechanism remains unclear. Consortium ME-1 isolated from AOPP-contaminated soil can degrade metamifop completely after 6 days and utilize it as the carbon source for bacterial ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Dong W,Liu K,Wang F,Xin F,Zhang W,Zhang M,Wu H,Ma J,Jiang M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential toxicity of the s-triazine herbicide atrazine motivates continuous bioremediation-directed research. Several indigenous soil atrazine-catabolizing microbial associations and monocultures have been enriched/isolated from compromised sites. Of these, Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP has become a reference strain...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Ralebits TK,Senior E,van Verseveld HW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerobic bacterial degradation of chloroaromatic compounds often involves chlorosubstituted catechols as central intermediates. They are converted to 3-oxoadipate in a series of reactions similar to that for catechol catabolism and therefore designated as modified ortho-cleavage pathway. Among the enzymes of this c...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Schlömann M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although information about the ability of some filamentous fungi to biodegrade organophosphonates is available, the knowledge about accompanying changes in fungal metabolism is very limited. The aim of our study was to determine the utilization of the chosen, structurally diverse aminophosphonates by Aspergillus terre...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Lenartowicz P,Kafarski P,Lipok J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of feeding ratio and loading rate on the microbial community during co-digestion of grass silage with cow manure in an anaerobic laboratory continuously stirred tank reactor were investigated by 16S rRNA gene-based fingerprints. The microbial community remained stable when the reactor was fed with cow manu...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wang H,Tolvanen K,Lehtomäki A,Puhakka J,Rintala J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for aeration of microcosms during mineralization of 14C-labeled compounds in high oxygen demand environments was assessed using active compost-soil mixtures as the model system. Rapid mineralization of 14C-hexadecane occurred in continuously aerated microcosms while no mineralization occurred in unaerated mic...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Haderlein A,Bonin Aly-Hassan MC,Legros R,Ramsay BA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of the genus Variovorax are often isolated from nitrile or amide-containing organic compound-contaminated soil. However, there have been few biological characterizations of Variovorax and their contaminant-degrading enzymes. Previously, we reported a new soil isolate, Variovorax boronicumulans CGMCC 4969, and ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Liu ZH,Cao YM,Zhou QW,Guo K,Ge F,Hou JY,Hu SY,Yuan S,Dai YJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol is a renewable biofuel, and it can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass. The biomass is usually converted to hydrolysates that consist of sugar and sugar derivatives, such as furfural. Yeast ferments sugar to ethanol, but furfural higher than 3 mM is inhibitory. It can take several days for yeast cells to ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Li Q,Metthew Lam LK,Xun L

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two stage statistical design was used to optimize xylanase production from Bacillus pumilus ASH under solid-state fermentation. Initially, Plackett-Burman designing (PB) was used for the selection of crucial production parameters. Peptone, yeast extract, incubation time, moisture level and pH were found to be the cruc...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Garg G,Mahajan R,Kaur A,Sharma J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast development of ionic liquids as gaining more and more attention valuable chemicals will undoubtedly lead to environmental pollution. New formulations and application of ionic liquids may result in contamination in the presence of hydrophobic compounds, such as petroleum mixtures. We hypothesize that in the presen...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Chrzanowski L,Stasiewicz M,Owsianiak M,Szulc A,Piotrowska-Cyplik A,Olejnik-Schmidt AK,Wyrwas B

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the acclimation potential of batch fed anaerobic biomass with salinities of 0-50 gNaCl l(-1). Anaerobic biomass was acclimatized to salinities up to 20 gNaCl l(-1)over a period of 35 days, with 3 consecutive feedings. After this period the biomass was subjected to non-saline conditions to simul...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Vyrides I,Stuckey DC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work is focused on the evaluation of a beta-cyclodextrin polymer as a carrier medium in a fluidized bed bioreactor treating aqueous phenol as a model pollutant. The insoluble polymer support was obtained in the shape of spherical beads by crosslinking beta-cyclodextrin with epichlorohydrin. A batch of swollen pol...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Sevillano X,Isasi JR,Peñas FJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organophosphorous pesticide, demeton-S-methyl was transformed by Corynebacterium glutamicum in co-metabolism with more readily degradable substrates. Glucose, acetate and fructose were tested as growth substrates, and the highest demeton-S-methyl biotransformation average rate (0.78 mg l(-1) h(-1)) and maximum ins...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Girbal L,Rols JL,Lindley ND

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Cu(II) shock loads on shortcut biological nitrogen removal during a continuous-flow anoxic/aerobic process was investigated using a hybrid biofilm nitrogen removal reactor. The results demonstrated that [Formula: see text]-N removal was not affected by any Cu(II) shock loads, but TN removal was inhibited...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Yin J,Xu H,Shen D,Wang K,Lin Y

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic activities have introduced elevated levels of brominated phenols to the environment. These compounds are associated with toxic and endocrine effects, and their environmental fate is of interest. An aerobic strain Ochrobactrum sp. HI1 was isolated from soils in the vicinity of a bromophenol production pla...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Golan R,Gelman F,Kuder T,Taylor AA,Ronen Z,Bernstein A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at characterizing a biosurfactant from Candida utilis, and use it in the preparation of salad dressings. The biosurfactant was produced in mineral medium supplemented with 6% glucose and 6% waste frying canola oil. The crude biosurfactant was then tested for stability in different conditions of pH, sa...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Campos JM,Stamford TLM,Sarubbo LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic pretreated paper process water was characterized in terms of readily biodegradable, slowly biodegradable, very slowly biodegradable and inert wastewater fractions under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. The anaerobic pretreated paper process water contained a relatively high amount of slowly biodegrada...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Vogelaar JC,Klapwijk B,van Lier JB,Lettinga G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene probe for the detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) induced nidB and nidA dioxygenase genes has been designed from Mycobacteria JLS, KMS, and MCS. The probe detects a catabolic gene involved in the initial steps of PAH biodegradation in mycobacteria. The gene probe is comprised of three PCR primer ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Hall K,Miller CD,Sorensen DL,Anderson AJ,Sims RC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studied was the effect of temperature in the range 12-46 degrees C on the rate of bacterial decolorization of the mono-azo dye Acid Orange 7 by Alcaligenes faecalis 6132 and Rhodococcus erythropolis 24. With both strains the raise of temperature led to a corresponding raise of decolorization rate better manifested by ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Angelova B,Avramova T,Stefanova L,Mutafov S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present work was to analyze the interrelationship between the aerobic degradation of BPA and readily biodegradable substrates by activated sludge (AS) in semi-continuous reactors (SCRs). AS were obtained from three SCRs fed with glucose, acetate or peptone. AS from these reactors were used as inoc...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Ferro Orozco AM,Contreras EM,Zaritzky NE

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, indigenous bacterial isolates Bacillus subtilis VITSUKMW1 and Escherichia coli VITSUKMW3 from a chromite mine were adapted to 100 mg L(-1) of Cr(VI). The phase contrast and scanning electron microscopic images showed increase in the length of adapted E. coli cells and chain formation in case of a...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Samuel J,Paul ML,Ravishankar H,Mathur A,Saha DP,Natarajan C,Mukherjee A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of bacterial cultures to degrade diethanolamine under anoxic conditions with nitrate as an electron acceptor was investigated. A mixed culture capable of anaerobic degradation of diethanolamine was obtained from river sediments by enrichment culture. From this a single bacterial strain was isolated which c...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Knapp JS,Jenkey ND,Townsley CC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research examines the potential for bio-clogging in filter packs containing fine sand of the type typically used in extraction wells for pumping leachates containing fine particulate matter, such as cement kiln dust (CKD). Three filter media with different particle sizes were used: 1.7-4.75, 0.35-1.0, and 0.235-0....

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wang Z,Banks C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds of interest in this work are methanethiol (MeSH), dimethyl sulfide (Me2S), dimethyl polysulfides (Me2Sx) and carbon disulfide (CS2) since these volatiles have been identified as predominant odorants in the emission of a wide range of activities in the bio-industry (e.g. aerobic waste water treatment plants, ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Smet E,Van Langenhove H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digestion of cattle manure collected from a livestock farm together with bedding material (straw) has been studied under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions in batch reactors. The digestion was carried out for a prolonged period with the aim of evaluating the changes undergone by the organic matter. The mesophilic ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Gómez X,Blanco D,Lobato A,Calleja A,Martínez-Núñez F,Martin-Villacorta J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoterpenes are important renewable resources for the perfume and flavour industry but the pathways and enzymology of their degradation by microorganisms are not well documented. Until recently the acyclic monoterpene alcohols, (+)-camphor and the isomers of limonene were the only compounds for which significant sect...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Trudgill PW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic iron oxides (goethite, alpha-FeO.OH; hematite, Fe2O3; and ferrihydrite, Fe(OH)3) were used as model compounds to simulate the mineralogy of surface films on carbon steel. Dissolution of these oxides exposed to pure cultures of the metal-reducing bacterium, Shewanella putrefaciens, was followed by direct atom...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Little B,Wagner P,Hart K,Ray R,Lavoie D,Nealson K,Aguilar C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00