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Different types of sludge granules in UASB reactors treating acidified wastewaters
The influence of a high energy substrate, i.e. sucrose, on the granular sludge yield and the development of different types of granular sludge was investigated by using Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed (UASB) react...
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Molecular Tools Applied to the Study of Deteriorated Artworks
Traditional methods normally used to study the microbial populations present on artwork surfaces are time-consuming and often do not reveal the specific characteristics of the microbial ecotypes. The developme...
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Treatment of Benzene-Contaminated Airstreams in Laboratory-Scale Biofilters Packed with Raw and Sieved Sugarcane Bagasse and with Peat
Three identical upflow laboratory-scale biofilters, inoculated with thebenzene-degrading strain Pseudomonas sp. NCIMB 9688 but filled up with different packing media (PM), specifically raw sugarcane bagasse, siev...
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Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline
Beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea lies one of the most extreme environments on Earth capable of sustaining life. Here the seawater floats on a lake of anoxic hypersaline brine known as the Bannock basin, a...
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Microbial Succession in a Compost-packed Biofilter Treating Benzene-contaminated Air
Air artificially contaminated with increasing concentrations of benzene was treated in a laboratory scale compost-packed biofilter for 240 days with a removal efficiency of 81–100%. The bacterial community in ...
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Response of 1,2-dichloroethane-adapted microbial communities to ex-situ biostimulation of polluted groundwater
The microbial community of a groundwater system contaminated by 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCA), a toxic and persistent chlorinated hydrocarbon, has been investigated for its response to biostimulation finalized ...
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Ensuring Biosafety Through Monitoring of Gmo in Food With Modern Analytical Techniques, a Case Study
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Bacillus thuringiensis beyond insect biocontrol: plant growth promotion and biosafety of polyvalent strains
The entomopathogenic bacteriumBacillus thuringiensis is widely used for the control of many agricultural insect pests and vectors of human diseases. Several studies reported also on its antibacterial and antifung...
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Bacteria of the Genus Asaia: A Potential Paratransgenic Weapon Against Malaria
Symbiotic bacteria have been proposed as tools for control of insect-borne diseases. Primary requirements for such symbionts are dominance, prevalence and stability within the insect body. Most of the bacteria...
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Screening of plant growth promoting traits ofBacillus thuringiensis
This study aimed to evaluate the plant growth promoting (PGP) potential ofBacillus thuringiensis. In this context, several genetic determinants of factors implicated in PGP potential were investigated by polymera...
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Bacterial community diversity assessment in municipal solid waste compost amended soil using DGGE and ARISA fingerprinting methods
Bacterial community structure and diversity of Tunisian agricultural soil treated with different amounts of municipal solid waste compost (MSWC) and other fertilizers were studied using DGGE and ARISA fingerpr...
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Open AccessDNA is preserved and maintains transforming potential after contact with brines of the deep anoxic hypersaline lakes of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Extracellular dissolved DNA has been demonstrated to be present in many terrestrial and aquatic environments, actively secreted, or released by decaying cells. Free DNA has the genetic potential to be acquired...
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Detection of feed-derived maize DNA in goat milk and evaluation of the potential of horizontal transfer to bacteria
The presence and the transforming capacity of feed-derived DNA in milk obtained from eight lactating goats fed on maize E176 silage were evaluated. The presence of single- and multi-copy maize genes was monito...
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Open AccessFluorescent-BOX-PCR for resolving bacterial genetic diversity, endemism and biogeography
BOX-A1R-based repetitive extragenic palindromic-PCR (BOX-PCR) is one of the most used techniques in biogeography studies of microbial isolates. However the traditional separation of BOX-PCR patterns by agarose...
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Initial community evenness favours functionality under selective stress
It has been established that ecosystem functioning is affected by species richness, but the effect of inequalities in the relative abundances of these species — species unevenness — is less well studied. An in...
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Endophytic bacterial diversity in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) leaves described by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and length heterogeneity-PCR
Diversity of bacterial endophytes associated with grapevine leaf tissues was analyzed by cultivation and cultivation-independent methods. In order to identify bacterial endophytes directly from metagenome, a p...
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Identification of Molecular Markers to Follow Up the Bioremediation of Sites Contaminated with Chlorinated Compounds
The use of microorganisms to clean up xenobiotics from polluted ecosystems (soil and water) represents an ecosustainable and powerful alternative to traditional remediation processes. Recent developments in mo...
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Isolation and characterization of non-Frankia actinobacteria from root nodules of Alnus glutinosa, Casuarina glauca and Elaeagnus angustifolia
Actinobacterial isolates randomly obtained on nitrogen-free BAP medium from surface sterilized root nodules of Alnus glutinosa, Casuarina glauca and Elaeagnus angustifolia sampled from fields were reported. They ...
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Open AccessBacterial diversity and reductive dehalogenase redundancy in a 1,2-dichloroethane-degrading bacterial consortium enriched from a contaminated aquifer
Bacteria possess a reservoir of metabolic functionalities ready to be exploited for multiple purposes. The use of microorganisms to clean up xenobiotics from polluted ecosystems (e.g. soil and water) represent...
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Mosquito-Bacteria Symbiosis: The Case of Anopheles gambiae and Asaia
The symbiotic relationship between Asaia, an α-proteobacterium belonging to the family Acetobacteriaceae, and mosquitoes has been studied mainly in the Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi. Thus, we have inve...
