Isolation and selection of a highly tolerant microbial consortium with potential for PAH biodegradation from heavy crude oil-contaminated soils

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Zafra, German ^a   Absalón, Ángel E ^a   Cuevas, Ma Del Carmen ^b   Cortés Espinosa, Diana V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Degrading consortium; Heavy crude oil; Microbial diversity; Microbial tolerance; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CRUDE OIL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PYRENE; SOIL POLLUTION;

DEGRADING CONSORTIUM; HEAVY CRUDE OIL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL TOLERANCES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS);

BACTERIA;

BENZO[A]PYRENE; PETROLEUM; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUDE OIL; FUNGUS; INHIBITION; ISOLATION EFFECT; PAH; SELECTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ACREMONIUM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS FLEXUS; BACILLUS SIMPLEX; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON SOURCE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COMAMONAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DELFTIA; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER ASBURIAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM EQUISETI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KOCURIA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM COMMUNE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS NITROREDUCENS; RHIZOMUCOR VARIABILIS; SCEDOSPORIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOMYCES; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ASPERELLUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELFTIA; ENTEROBACTER; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA SP.; KOCURIA; PENICILLIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCEDOSPORIUM; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOMYCES; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ASPERELLUM;

EID: 84891639085     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1826-4     Document Type: Article

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