Highlights•Synthetic microbial communities can be engineered for targeted
functions.•Artificial selection has been employed to improve existing communities.•Several …

Anthropogenic activities and population growth have resulted in a reduced availability of
drinking water. To ensure consistency in the existence of drinking water, it is inevitable to …

Salinity is one of the great challenges in the biological treatment of high-salinity wastewater.
Unraveling how microbial associations respond to salinity stress and how they affect …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are critical for maintaining sustainable development
in modern societies, wherein microbial populations residing in activated sludge (AS) are …

Activated sludge system is an important process of domestic and industrial wastewater
treatment containing highly diverse microbial communities. In this study, high-throughput …

Biological degradation of domestic and industrial wastewater by activated sludge depends
on a common process of separation of the diverse self-assembled and self-sustained …

Aerobic granulation of activated sludge was successfully achieved in a full‐scale
sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with 50,000 m3 d− 1 for treating a town's wastewater. After …

Activated sludge bulking is easily caused in winter, resulting in adverse effects on effluent
treatment and management of wastewater treatment plants. In this study, activated sludge …

In this study, we investigated during 400 days the microbial community variations as
observed from 16S DNA gene DGGE banding patterns from an aerobic granular sludge pilot …

Assessments of bacterial community diversity and dynamics are fundamental for the
understanding of microbial ecology as well as biotechnological applications. We show that …