The synergistic activity of algae and prokaryotic microorganisms can be used to improve the
efficiency of biological wastewater treatment, particularly with regards to nitrogen removal …

Agricultural ecosystems can be described by many different variables that include soil
chemical, physical, and biological data. Whilst most of the chemical and physical properties …

Compared to our understanding of the taxonomic composition of the symbiotic microbes in
marine sponges, the functional diversity of these symbionts is largely unknown. Furthermore …

Nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR) is the key enzyme responsible for the oxidation of NO2− to
NO3− in nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. For the first time a molecular approach for targeting the …

Low-biomass samples from nitrate and heavy metal contaminated soils yield DNA amounts
that have limited use for direct, native analysis and screening. Multiple displacement …

Colombia, as well as many tropical countries, has experienced severe deforestation in the
last decades, and millions of acres of native forest areas (F) have been replaced by …

Molecular markers are defined as the fragments of DNA sequence associated with a
genome, which areused to identify a particular DNA sequence. Nowadays, with the …

Microbial activities influence the ecological functions of marine ecosystems and play an
essential role in biogeochemical cycling. However, there are more studies on microbial …

Corn productivity in Indonesia is still relatively low compared with other countries. Therefore,
it is necessary to increase the productivity of corn by using rhizobacteria, which have …

The diversity of the nitrite reductase gene nirS was studied in the bulk sediment of a free-
water surface constructed wetland (FWS-CW) located next to the Empuriabrava wastewater …