Stable isotope probing in the metagenomics era: a bridge towards improved bioremediation

O Uhlik, MC Leewis, M Strejcek, L Musilova… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Microbial biodegradation and biotransformation reactions are essential to most
bioremediation processes, yet the specific organisms, genes, and mechanisms involved are …

Autochthonous bioaugmentation and its possible application to oil spills

R Hosokawa, M Nagai, M Morikawa… - World Journal of …, 2009 - Springer
Bioaugmentation for oil spills is a much more promising technique than is biostimulation.
However, the effectiveness of bioaugmentation is variable, because the survival and the …

Microbial vanadate and nitrate reductions coupled with anaerobic methane oxidation in groundwater

B Zhang, Y Jiang, K Zuo, C He, Y Dai, ZJ Ren - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vanadate contaminant in groundwater receives increasing attentions, but little is known on
its biogeochemical transformation with gaseous electron donors. This study investigated bio …

Degradation of 1, 2-dichloroethane by microbial communities from river sediment at various redox conditions

B van der Zaan, J de Weert, H Rijnaarts, WM de Vos… - Water Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Insight into the pathways of biodegradation and external factors controlling their activity is
essential in adequate environmental risk assessment of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon …

A new bacterial biosensor for trichloroethylene detection based on a three-dimensional carbon nanotubes bioarchitecture

M Hnaien, F Lagarde, J Bausells, A Errachid… - Analytical and …, 2011 - Springer
Trichloroethylene (TCE), a suspected human carcinogen, is one of the most common volatile
groundwater contaminants. Many different methodologies have already been developed for …

Growth kinetics and stable carbon isotope fractionation during aerobic degradation of cis-1, 2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride

A Tiehm, KR Schmidt, B Pfeifer, M Heidinger, S Ertl - Water research, 2008 - Elsevier
Assessing changes in the isotopic signature of contaminants is a promising new tool to
monitor microbial degradation processes. In this study, chloroethene degradation was …

Natural attenuation of chloroethenes: identification of sequential reductive/oxidative biodegradation by microcosm studies

KR Schmidt, A Tiehm - Water Science and Technology, 2008 - iwaponline.com
A different lines of evidence approach for investigation of biodegradation processes at a
chloroethene contaminated site showed well corresponding results of pollutant profiles …

Methanotrophs: An emerging bioremediation tool with unique broad spectrum methane monooxygenase (MMO) enzyme

JS Singh, DP Singh - Agro-Environmental Sustainability: Volume 2 …, 2017 - Springer
This review is proposed to emphasize the contribution of methanotrophs as potential
bioagents in mitigating the effect of toxic environmental pollutants like heavy metals …

Synthesis, characterisation and application of an exfoliated graphite–diamond composite electrode in the electrochemical degradation of trichloroethylene

B Ntsendwana, BB Mamba, S Sampath, OA Arotiba - RSC Advances, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
A composite electrode made up of exfoliated graphite (EG) and diamond was prepared for
the electrochemical oxidation of trichloroethylene (TCE). The SEM images of the EG …

Bioremediation technologies for the removal of pollutants

B Dhir - Advances in Environmental Biotechnology, 2017 - Springer
Bioremediation technology involves the use of living organisms like microbes and plants to
reduce/degrade, eliminate and transform contaminants present in soils, sediments and …