Persistency of organic chemicals is a key property in their environmental risk assessment.
Information on persistency is often derived from the results of biodegradability screening …

Astonishing as it may seem, one organism's waste is often ideal food for another. Many
waste products generated by human activities are routinely degraded by microorganisms …

Society׳ s reliance upon chemicals over the last few decades has led to their increased
production, application and release into the environment. Determination of chemical …

Complex microbial communities in environmental systems play a key role in the
detoxification of chemical contaminants by transforming them into less active metabolites or …

Experiments were devised to determine whether exposure to xenobiotics would cause
microbial populations to degrade the compounds more rapidly during subsequent …

The aim of this project was to determine the biodegradability of all the organic compounds
listed on the EPA Consent Decree. A static-flask screening procedure, using wastewater …

The evaluation of a chemical substance's persistence is key to understanding its
environmental fate, exposure concentration, and, ultimately, environmental risk. Traditional …

A study was conducted to determine the role of concentration of the test chemical, of a
second organic compound, and of mutation in the acclimation period before the …

Highlights•Bacteria exploit a variety of mechanisms to access new chemical
substrates.•Gene duplication can lead to rapid evolution of new or more efficient …

A wide variety of inhibitory substances can induce anaerobic digester upset or failure. In this
work the possibility to improve the resistance of an anaerobic microbiota to a common …