Development of an efficient bacterial consortium for the potential remediation of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2016, Pages

  Patowary, Kaustuvmani ^a   Patowary, Rupshikha ^a   Kalita, Mohan C ^b   Deka, Suresh ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus R2; Bacillus pumilus KS2; Bioremediation; Biosurfactant; Consortium; Crude oil; PAHs

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIOSURFACTANT; HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CONTAMINATED ORGANISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BOND; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PATHOGEN LOAD; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

EID: 84983032230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01092     Document Type: Article

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