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  1. Microbial Degradation of Pollutants

    With the industrial development of the past hundred years, components and products from petroleum and coal have increasingly entered the environment....
    Walter Reineke, Michael Schlömann in Environmental Microbiology
    Chapter 2023
  2. Microbial Exploration and Their Metabolic Capacity for Detoxification and Restoration of Natural Ecosystems

    Bioremediation is a biological mechanism of recycling wastes into another form that can be used and reused by other organisms. Bioremediation is...
    Suhail Bashir Peer, Zahid Bashir, ... Shahid Rahim Malik in Microbial Bioremediation
    Chapter 2023
  3. Biological Soil Remediation

    It was not until the seventies of the last century that the dangers posed by soil contamination known as contaminated sites were recognised....
    Walter Reineke, Michael Schlömann in Environmental Microbiology
    Chapter 2023
  4. Communities of Microbial Enzymes and Biodegradation of Persistent Environmental Pollutants

    Enzymes are biocatalysts that potentiate the rate of substrate conversion into products. They are composed of amino acids with one or more...
    Oluwafemi Adebayo Oyewole, Muhammed Muhammed Saidu, ... Aisha Bisola Bello in Ecological Interplays in Microbial Enzymology
    Chapter 2022
  5. Detoxification of Contaminated Soil to Restore Its Health for Sustainable Agriculture

    Around 2.5 million years in the past, the Homo genus originated in Africa, marking the initial utilisation of stone tools and remarkable evolutionary...
    Pushpak Dahiya, Manya Behl, ... Ravi Kant Bhatia in Advancements in Microbial Biotechnology for Soil Health
    Chapter 2024
  6. Bioremediation of Soil: An Overview

    The bioaccumulationBioaccumulation of contaminantsContaminants in soilSoil causes toxicityToxicity to human, animals, microorganisms, and plants....
    Shafeeqa Irfan, Muhammad Modassar Ali Nawaz Ranjha, ... Lufeng Wang in Advances in Bioremediation and Phytoremediation for Sustainable Soil Management
    Chapter 2022
  7. VAM: An Alternate Strategy for Bioremediation of Polluted Environment

    Soil remediation is a term that involves a numerous processes designed to get rid of contaminants like hydrocarbons (petroleum and fuel residues),...
    Poonam Verma, Suneel Kumar, ... Sardul Singh Sandhu in Microbial Rejuvenation of Polluted Environment
    Chapter 2021
  8. Enzyme Technology for Remediation of Contaminants in the Environment

    Enzymes are essential components that help in maintaining proper climate in numerous ways. They are used for natural purposes in various ventures...
    S. Sanjay Parethe, S. Ivo Romauld, ... Vineet Kumar in Omics Insights in Environmental Bioremediation
    Chapter 2022
  9. Floral and leaf-trap volatiles and their relationship to pollinator and prey attraction in **uicula moranensis (Lentibulariaceae)

    More than 140 years ago Darwin proposed that leaf-trap of carnivorous plants could produce odor to increase prey attraction; however, even now, there...

    Eduardo Cuevas, Yesenia Martínez-Díaz, ... Francisco J. Espinosa-García in Arthropod-Plant Interactions
    Article 06 July 2023
  10. Microbial Enzymes in the Bioremediation of Pollutants: Emerging Potential and Challenges

    The quality of life on the Earth is linked inextricably to the overall quality of the environment. Unfortunately the progress in science and...
    Geeta Bhandari, Mukund Sharma in Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability
    Chapter 2021
  11. Plant–Microbe Interactions in Attenuation of Toxic Waste in Ecosystem

    As a result of rapid human population growth and increased industrial activities, the world ecosystems more than ever before are perpetually...
    Monday Ubogu, Ejiro Akponah in Rhizobiont in Bioremediation of Hazardous Waste
    Chapter 2021
  12. Landfill leachate treatment using fungi and fungal enzymes: a review

    Landfill leachate raises a huge risk to human health and the environment as it contains a high concentration of organic and inorganic contaminants,...

    Anusree Nalladiyil, P. Sughosh, ... Sreenivasan Ramaswami in Biodegradation
    Article 09 September 2023
  13. Microbial Remediation: A Natural Approach for Environmental Pollution Management

    The humans are leading a good life due to industrialization by utilizing the available natural resources such as fossil fuels, water, etc. The...
    Vankayalapati Vijaya Kumar in Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability
    Chapter 2021
  14. Bioremediation of Waste Dum** Sites

    Human activities have resulted in the accumulation of enormous tons of waste products day by day in the form of raw sewageSewage to nuclear...
    Chapter 2022
  15. Bio-electrochemical Remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

    Bioelectrochemistry and, more specifically, microbial electrochemistry are research fields that establish their fundaments on the molecular and...
    Anna Espinoza-Tofalos, Pablo Alviz-Gazitua, ... Michael Seeger in Bioelectrochemical Systems
    Chapter 2020
  16. Organic Matter in the Hydrosphere

    Organic matter appears in all compartments of the hydrosphere of both natural and more and more anthropogenic origin. Aquatic organic matter exhibits...
    Reference work entry 2020
  17. Organic Matter in the Hydrosphere

    Organic matter appears in all compartments of the hydrosphere of both natural and more and more anthropogenic origin. Aquatic organic matter exhibits...
    Living reference work entry 2020
  18. Effects of Aquatic (Freshwater and Marine) Pollution on Microbial Enzyme Activities

    Water pollution has a dual impact on nature, as it is harmful to both humans and the environment. Contamination from distributed sources is difficult...
    Gabriel Gbenga Babaniyi, Babatunde Oyemade, Damilola Orija in Ecological Interplays in Microbial Enzymology
    Chapter 2022
  19. Microbial Degradation of Chlorophenolic Compounds

    Chlorine-Based Aromatic Compounds (CBACs) and its numerous derivatives are referred to as Chlorophenols (CPs) as there consist of complex compounds...
    Charles Oluwasun Adetunji, Olugbemi Tope Olaniyan, ... Inamuddin in Recent Advances in Microbial Degradation
    Chapter 2021
  20. Three strategy rules of filamentous fungi in hydrocarbon remediation: an overview

    Remediation of hydrocarbon contaminations requires much attention nowadays since it causes detrimental effects on land and even worse impacts on...

    Micheal Helan Soundra Rani, Ramesh Kumar Nandana, ... Sugumar Muthukumar in Biodegradation
    Article 11 May 2024
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