Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals

Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals edited by Spiros Agathos, W. Reineke.

At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship. Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals captures the dynamism of environmental biotechnology as it addresses the molecular functionin...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Agathos, Spiros (Editor), Reineke, W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Focus on Biotechnology, 3A
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Biotechnology.
Biochemistry.
Soil science.
Soil conservation.
Microbiology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Strategic views
  • Application of the biotechnological potential for environmental challenges in the chemical industry
  • 2 Molecular aspects of xenobiotic degradation
  • Molecular characterisation of key enzymes in halorespiration
  • Diversity and activity of microbes oxidizing methane and ammonium in northern organic soils under changing environmental conditions
  • The haloalkane dehalogenase genes dhlA and dhaA are globally distributed and highly conserved
  • 3 Biodegradation
  • Microbial aspects in bioremediation of soils polluted by polyaromatic hydrocarbons
  • Transfer of catabolic plasmids in soil and activated sludge: a feasible bioaugmentation strategy?
  • Coping with a halogenated one-carbon diet: aerobic dichloromethane-mineralising bacteria
  • Microbial degradation of pollutants at low concentrations and in the presence of alternative carbon substrates: emerging patterns
  • Towards a better understanding of enhanced pesticide biodegradation
  • Microbial degradation of chlorinated aromatic compounds
  • The role of environmental conditions and biotic interactions between microbial species in degradation of chlorinated pollutants
  • Characterised reactions in aerobic and anaerobic utilisation of linear alkylbenzenesulphonate (LAS)
  • Mechanisms involving the aerobic biodegradation of PCB in the environment
  • Enzymology of the breakdown of synthetic chelating agents
  • 4 Ecotoxicology
  • Transgenic nematodes as biosensors of environmental stress.

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