Bacterial biofilm and extracellular polymeric substances in the treatment of environmental pollutants: beyond the protective role in survivability

KU Mahto, M Priyadarshanee, DP Samantaray… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increased tolerance to toxic pollutants and enhanced degradation capabilities of the
bacterial biofilm is often attributed to the matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) …

Petroleum hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria for the remediation of oil pollution under aerobic conditions: a perspective analysis

X Xu, W Liu, S Tian, W Wang, Q Qi, P Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
With the sharp increase in population and modernization of society, environmental pollution
resulting from petroleum hydrocarbons has increased, resulting in an urgent need for …

Negative effects of poly (butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) microplastics on Arabidopsis and its root-associated microbiome

J Liu, P Wang, Y Wang, Y Zhang, T Xu, Y Zhang… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The degradable plastic poly (butylene adipate-co-terephthalate)(PBAT) is considered a
potential replacement for low-density polyethylene (LDPE) as the main component of mulch …

The bioremediation of the typical persistent organic pollutants (POPs) by microalgae-bacteria consortia: A systematic review

W Guo, H Ren, Y **, Z Chai, B Liu - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
With industrialisation and the rapidly growing agricultural demand, many organic
compounds have been leaked into the environment, causing serious damage to the …

Surfactant-enhanced bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soil and microbial community response: A field study

H Ling, J Hou, M Du, Y Zhang, W Liu, P Christie, Y Luo - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Surfactant-enhanced bioremediation (SEBR) is frequently employed to clean up soil
polluted with petroleum hydrocarbons, but few studies have focused on how surfactants …

Bacterial community profile of the crude oil-contaminated saline soil in the Yellow River Delta Natural Reserve, China

Y Gao, L Yuan, J Du, H Wang, X Yang, L Duan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Crude oil contamination greatly influence soil bacterial community. Proliferative microbes in
the crude oil-contaminated soil are closely related to the living conditions. Oil wells in the …

Diversity of the active phenanthrene degraders in PAH-polluted soil is shaped by ryegrass rhizosphere and root exudates

J Li, C Luo, D Zhang, X Cai, L Jiang, X Zhao… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Root exudates can stimulate microbial degradation within the rhizosphere, but their exact
roles are embedded within the complicated rhizospheric effects. In the present study, we …

Distribution, sources and ecological risks of PAHs and n-alkanes in water and sediments of typically polluted estuaries: Insights from the **aoqing River

F Zhang, D Zhang, H Lou, X Li, H Fu, X Sun… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Seasonal water and sediment samples were collected from the **aoqing River estuary and
the neighboring sea to study the spatial and temporal distributions, sources and ecological …

Evaluation of microbial population and functional genes during the bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soil as an effective monitoring approach

A Shahi, S Aydin, B Ince, O Ince - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated the abundance and diversity of soil n-alkane and polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading bacterial communities. It also investigated the quantity of the …

Isolation of a polyethylene degrading Paenibacillus sp. from a landfill in Brazil

DKR Bardají, JPR Furlan, EG Stehling - Archives of microbiology, 2019 - Springer
The annual production of plastics has doubled over the past 15 years and, consequently, a
large amount of plastic has accumulated in the environment generating ecological …