Bacteria play a variety of roles in the environment. They maintain the balance in the
ecosystem and provide different ecosystem services such as in biogeochemical cycling of …

Soil contamination with petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) has become a global concern and
has resulted from the intensification of industrial activities. This has created a serious …

Chronic pollution by used lubricant oils (ULOs) poses a serious challenge to the
environment. Under stress conditions, microorganisms, including potential degraders, can …

Background In the last few years, considerable attention has been focused on the plastic-
degrading capability of insects and their gut microbiota in order to develop novel, effective …

Polyethylene (PE) mulch films have been widely used in agriculture and led to a significant
pollution in cultivated soils. It is desirable to develop the sustainable method for the …

Background Composting is an important technique for environment-friendly degradation of
organic material, and is a microbe-driven process. Previous metagenomic studies of …

Phytoremediation is a sustainable technology capable of efficiently removing low or
moderate contamination. However, complex pollution conditions can drastically reduce …

In the microbial world, bacteria are the most effective agents in petroleum hydrocarbons
(PHs) degradation, utilization/mineralization and they serve as essential degraders of crude …

Pyrenes are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons responsible for an array of health hazards
and environmental abuses. The remediation of such compounds is remaining as an area of …

Background Aldehyde dehydrogenases are vital for aerobic hydrocarbon degradation and is
involved in the last step of catalysing the oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids. With the …