The quantity and quality of dissolved organic matter as supplementary carbon source impacts the pesticide-degrading activity of a triple-species bacterial biofilm

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 931-943

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bacterial biofilms; Dissolved organic matter; Linuron biodegradation; Mixed substrate effects

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL BIOFILM; DEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; LINURON; METABOLIC INTERACTIONS; MIXED SUBSTRATES; PHENYLUREA HERBICIDES; SYNTROPHIC INTERACTIONS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PESTICIDES;

BACTERIA;

3,4 DICHLOROANILINE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; LINURON;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; LINURON; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; XENOBIOTICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENERGY RESOURCE; HYPHOMICROBIUM SULFONIVORANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VARIOVORAX;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LINURON; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84893175608     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4928-4     Document Type: Article

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