Monitoring bacterial population dynamics using real-time PCR during the bioremediation of crude-oil-contaminated Soil

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 339-345

  Baek, Kyung Hwa ^a   Yoon, Byung Dae ^a   Cho, Dae Hyun ^a   Kim, Byung Hyuk ^a   Oh, Hee Mock ^a   Kim, Hee Sik ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bioaugmentation; Crude oil; Nocardia sp; Real time PCR; Total petroleum hydrocarbon

Indexed keywords

ALKANE MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATECHOL 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; PETROLEUM; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROCARBONS; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; NOCARDIA; PETROLEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA SP.;

EID: 67649379043     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.0807.423     Document Type: Article

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