Effects of gene augmentation on the removal of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in a biofilm reactor under different scales and substrate conditions

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 185, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 689-695

  Quan, Xiangchun ^a   Tang, Hua ^a   Ma, Jingyun ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2,4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid; Bioaugmentation; Biodegradation; Gene horizontal transfer; Plasmid pJP4; Sequence batch biofilm reactor (SBBR)

Indexed keywords

BIO-AUGMENTATION; BIOAUGMENTED REACTORS; BIODEGRADABLE COMPOUNDS; BIOFILM REACTORS; CARBON SOURCE; DEGRADATION CAPACITY; DEGRADATION RATE; DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACIDS; DIFFERENT SCALE; FED BATCHES; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROCOSM STUDIES; OPERATION CYCLES; PLASMID PJP4; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; SEQUENCE BATCH BIOFILM REACTOR (SBBR); SOLE CARBON SOURCE; START-UPS; SUBSTRATE CONDITIONS; TRANSCONJUGANTS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILTERS; BIOREACTORS; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; GENES; HERBICIDES; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOFILMS;

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID;

ACETIC ACID; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; PLASMID; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM REACTOR; CARBON SOURCE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONJUGATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FED BATCH REACTOR; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 78649938809     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.09.073     Document Type: Article

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