Microbial consortia are needed to degrade soil pollutants

T Zhang, H Zhang - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems globally due to the weak
self-purification ability, long degradation time, and high cost of cleaning soil pollution. The …

Variations of microbiota in three types of typical military contaminated sites: Diversities, structures, influence factors, and co-occurrence patterns

J Luo, Y Li, H Cao, Y Zhu, X Liu, H Li, X Liao - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination with energetic compounds (ECs) is common in military sites and poses a
great risk to the environment and human health. However, its effects on the soil bacterial …

In situ bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon–contaminated soil: isolation and application of a Rhodococcus strain

X Chen, G Shan, J Shen, F Zhang, Y Liu… - International …, 2023 - Springer
Due to low consumption and high efficiency, in situ microbial remediation of petroleum
hydrocarbons (PHs)-contaminated sites in in-service petrochemical enterprises has …

Survival strategies and assembly mechanisms of microbial communities in petroleum-contaminated soils

W Lu, Y Zheng, Y Wang, J Song, Y Weng, W Ma… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study analyzed petroleum-contaminated soils from south and north locations in China
to explore the structure, diversity, functional genes and assembly processes of microbial …

Metagenomic insight on consortium degradation of soil weathered petroleum and its supplement based on gene abundance change

H Zhu, Y Fu, J Yu, W **g, M Zhou - Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Petroleum biodegradation is of importance for the mitigation of secondary pollutants from
soil chemical remediation. Describing the gene abundance change of the petroleum …

Co-metabolic biodegradation of chlorinated ethene in an oxygen-and ethane-based membrane biofilm reactor

Z Chi, X Liu, H Li, S Liang, YH Luo, C Zhou… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater contamination by chlorinated ethenes is an urgent concern worldwide. One
approach for detoxifying chlorinated ethenes is aerobic co-metabilims using ethane (C 2 H …

Identification of a putative novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-biodegrading gene cluster in a marine Roseobacteraceae bacterium Sagittula sp. MA-2

M Abe, M Sakai, RA Kanaly, JF Mori - Microbiology Spectrum, 2025 - journals.asm.org
The ability to biodegrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and the catabolic
enzymes responsible for PAH biotransformation in marine bacteria belonging to the family …

Natural Chromosome-Chromid Fusion across rRNA Operons in a Burkholderiaceae Bacterium

JF Mori, RA Kanaly - Microbiology spectrum, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chromids (secondary chromosomes) in bacterial genomes that are present in addition to the
main chromosome appear to be evolutionarily conserved in some specific bacterial groups …

Mixed bacterial consortium can hamper the efficient degradation of crude oil hydrocarbons

OO Nnabuife, JC Ogbonna, C Anyanwu, AC Ike… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
Crude oil degradation efficiency can be improved because of co-metabolism that exists
when bacterial consortium is applied. However, because of possible vulnerability to …

Comprehensive Genomic Characterization of Marine Bacteria Thalassospira spp. Provides Insights into Their Ecological Roles in Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Exposed …

G Kayama, RA Kanaly, JF Mori - Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The marine bacterial genus Thalassospira has often been identified as an abundant
member of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-exposed microbial communities …