Anaerobic digestion (AD) of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) offers the
possibility of a clean and renewable energy source–ie biogas. However, OFMSW lacks …

Anaerobic digestion is a commercial reality for several kinds of waste. Nonetheless,
anaerobic digestion of single substrates presents some drawbacks linked to substrate …

The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

The microbial community of 21 full-scale biogas reactors was examined using 454
pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene sequences. These reactors included seven (six …

Highlights•Requirements for microbial management in anaerobic digestion are
revised.•Bacterial evenness and active Archaea population are proposed as microbial …

Anaerobic digestion is the method of wastes treatment aimed at a reduction of their
hazardous effects on the biosphere. The mutualistic behavior of various anaerobic …

Highlights•Emerging complimentary approaches to study diverse anaerobic digestion
communities.•Metagenomics enables reconstruction of genomes to explore functional …

A replicate long-term experiment was conducted using anaerobic digestion (AD) as a model
process to determine the relative role of niche and neutral theory on microbial community …

Background Anaerobic digestion has been widely applied to treat the waste activated
sludge from biological wastewater treatment and produce methane for biofuel, which has …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) involves a consortium of microorganisms that convert substrates
into biogas containing methane for renewable energy. The technology has suffered from the …