Large quantities of phosphate present in wastewater is one of the main causes of
eutrophication that negatively affects many natural water bodies, both fresh water and …

Profound changes are occurring in the strategies that biotechnology-based industries are
deploying in the search for exploitable biology and to discover new products and develop …

The application of phylogenetic taxonomic procedures led to improvements in the
classification of bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria but even so there remains a …

Understanding the microbiology of phosphorus (P) removal is considered essential to
knowledge-based optimization of enhanced biological P removal (EBPR) systems …

This work analyzed, for the first time, the bioenergetics of PAOs and GAOs in full-scale
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) for the uptake of different carbon sources. Fifteen …

The most common activated sludge operating problems causing poor plant performance are
related to solids separation. Especially common are bulking and foaming. Without a proper …

The higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria were proposed and described in 1997. At each
rank, the taxa were delineated from each other solely on the basis of 16S rRNA gene …

Microautoradiography combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization (MAR-FISH) was
used to screen for potential polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAO) in a full-scale …

Glycerol is abundantly present in wastewater from industries such as biodiesel production
facilities. Glycerol is also a potential carbon source for microbes that are involved in …

A simple and sensitive method for separating and detecting the LL, DD and meso
diastereomers of the dibasic amino acid diaminopimelic acid (DAP) in the peptidoglycan of …