Environmental dissolved organic matter governs biofilm formation and subsequent linuron degradation activity of a linuron-degrading bacterial consortium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4534-4542

  Horemans, Benjamin ^a   Breugelmans, Philip ^a   Hofkens, Johan ^a   Smolders, Erik ^a   Springael, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CONSORTIUM; DEGRADATION ACTIVITY; DEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; PHENYLUREA HERBICIDES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PESTICIDES; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOFILMS;

CARBON; HERBICIDE; LINURON; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHORUS; TRACE ELEMENT;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HERBICIDE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; HYPHOMICROBIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; CARBON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HERBICIDES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYPHOMICROBIUM; LINURON; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BELGIUM; FLEMISH BRABANT; LOUVAIN;

EID: 84880685276     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03730-12     Document Type: Article

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