Isolation and identification of toluene-metabolizing bacteria from rhizospheres of two indoor plants

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Pennisi, Svoboda V ^b   Kays, Stanley J ^c   Habteselassie, Mussie Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foliage plants; Indoor air quality; Phytoremediation; Rhizosphere bacteria

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOILS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BASIC LOCAL ALIGNMENT SEARCH TOOLS; FOLIAGE PLANTS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION; ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION; PHYTOREMEDIATION; RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIA; RHIZOSPHERE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

TOLUENE;

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON 14; RIBOSOME DNA; TOLUENE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

BACTERIUM; FOLIAGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE; TOLUENE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA SEQUENCE; FITTONIA VERSCHAFFELTII; FOLIAGE; HOYA CARNOSA; ISOTOPE LABELING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOLUENE MONOOXYGENASE GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FITTONIA; HOYA CARNOSA;

EID: 84881272932     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1648-4     Document Type: Article

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