Over the past few decades, the rapid development of agriculture and industries has resulted
in contamination of the environment by diverse pollutants, including heavy metals …

Aquaculture effluent is often associated with increased organic carbon, suspended solids,
phosphates, nitrogenous species (nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia), chemical oxygen demand …

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is known as the most successful microbial insecticide against
different orders of insect pests in agriculture and medicine. Moreover, Bt toxin genes also …

Aerobic fixed bed bioreactors were used to study and compare biostimulation and
bioaugmentation for remediation of soil contaminated with spent motor oil. Bioaugmentation …

Rhodococcus sp. HX-2 could degrade diesel oil in the presence of 1%–10% NaCl. The
compatible solute betaine accumulated in cells with increasing NaCl concentration, and this …

Bioremediation is a broadly applied environmentally friendly and economical treatment for
the clean-up of sites contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons. However, the application of …

In the present study, n-hexadecane degradation in MSM was investigated by three bacteria
identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa PSA5, Rhodococcus sp. NJ2 and Ochrobactrum …

A new cypermethrin degrading strain was isolated from wastewater sludge using enrichment
technique. On the basis of morphological, physiological, biochemical characteristics tests …

A microbial consortium isolated from Shengli oilfield polluted sludge was capable of
degrading naphthalene (NAP), phenanthrene (PHE), pyrene (PYR) and crude oil. It …

Bacteria can use n-hexadecane as a carbon source, but it remains incompletely understood
whether n-hexadecane is transformed into metabolic intermediates prior to cellular uptake or …