80%. These results indicated that BL-27 has the potential to be used for the bioremediation of hydrocarbon pollutants and could have promising applications in the petrochemical industry.
The presence of pharmaceutical products has raised emerging biorisks in aquatic environments. Fungi have been considered in sustainable approaches for the degradation of pharmaceutical compounds from aquatic environments. Soft rot fungi of the Ascomycota phylum are the most widely distributed among fungi, but their ability to biodegrade pharmaceuti...
were isolated, identified, and characterized. Strains M6, M10, and M12 are closely related to Zhouia amylolytica, Tenacibaculum mesophilum, and Enterobacter cloacae, respectively. The bacterial strains M10 and M12 showed good ability to degrade MG in the sediment. The MG degradation rate was increased after adding MG three more times. The microbial...
100% for MCPA. These values ranged from 5% to 100% for control samples not amended with FA or SA. The higher herbicide removal associated with PSM spiking can be attributed to acceleration of the microbial degradation processes. Our findings showed that the addition of SA particularly stimulated the occurrence of the total number of tfdA genes, wit...
Steroids are perhydro-1,2-cyclopentanophenanthrene derivatives that are almost exclusively synthesised by eukaryotic organisms. Since the start of the Anthropocene, the presence of these molecules, as well as related synthetic compounds (ethinylestradiol, dexamethasone, and others), has increased in different habitats due to farm and municipal effl...
Published in Inland Water Biology
AbstractThe removal of endocrine-disrupting xenobiotics, technical nonylphenol (NP) and 4-tert-octylphenol (OP), from aquatic environment by the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii has been studied. It is shown that nonyl- and octylphenols are removed from aqueous medium in the presence of the cyanobacterium P. agardhii mainly via abiotic pathways...
Published in Polymer Science, Series D
Under the conditions of shear deformations, blends of polylactide with natural polysaccharides and their derivatives (starch, chitosan, and ethyl cellulose) were obtained in a Brabender mixer at different ratios of components; their properties were studied. It has been shown that the mechanical parameters of compositions depend on their composition...
Fats and oils are the most common pollutants in wastewater, and are usually eliminated through physical processes in wastewater treatment plants, generating large amounts of fats and residual oils that are difficult to dispose of and handle. The degradation of fatty wastewater was studied in a real wastewater treatment plant and a laboratory scale ...
g/mL. (4) Conclusions: Two bacterial strains isolated from the soil on a pig farm are effective in degrading PVK and can be potentially used for bioremediation of PVK antibiotic-contaminated soils.
Published in Acta Oceanologica Sinica
A great deal of oil contaminated the shoreline by the Qingdao oil pipeline explosion in 2013. The four oil-degrading consortia were enriched from sediment samples with crude oil as sole carbon and energy sources. The biodiversity and community analysis showed that the Luteibacter, Parvibaculum and a genus belonging to Alcanivoracaceae were found pr...
