Selection and screening of microbial consortia for efficient and ecofriendly degradation of plastic garbage collected from urban and rural areas of Bangalore, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Skariyachan, Sinosh ^a   Megha, M ^a   Kini, Meghna Niranjan ^a   Mukund, Kamath Manali ^a   Rizvi, Alya ^a   Vasist, Kiran ^a  

^a Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

Computational docking; Ecological threat; Effective approach; Extracellular lipase; Microbial consortia; Plastic degrading bacteria; Polymer degradation; Pseudomonas; Weight loss method; Zone of clearance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENZYMES; RURAL AREAS; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL DOCKINGS; DEGRADING BACTERIA; ECOLOGICAL THREAT; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; EXTRACELLULAR LIPASE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; POLYMER DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS; WEIGHT LOSS METHOD;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS;

MACROGOL; PLASTIC; POLYSTYRENE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; PLASTIC WASTE; POLYMER; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; INDIA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; RURAL AREA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; BACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BANGALORE; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PLASTICS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84957417182     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4174-y     Document Type: Article

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