Metals, minerals and microbes: geomicrobiology and bioremediation

GM Gadd - Microbiology, 2010 - microbiologyresearch.org
Microbes play key geoactive roles in the biosphere, particularly in the areas of element
biotransformations and biogeochemical cycling, metal and mineral transformations …

Geomycology: metals, actinides and biominerals

GM Gadd, YJ Rhee, K Stephenson… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Geomycology can be simply defined as 'the scientific study of the roles of fungi in processes
of fundamental importance to geology'and the biogeochemical importance of fungi is …

Chromium-microorganism interactions in soils: remediation implications

SPB Kamaludeen, M Megharaj, AL Juhasz… - Reviews of …, 2003 - Springer
The increasing urbanization and human population worldwide has generated an ever-
increasing amount of inorganic and organic wastes of domestic and industrial origin. Such …

Pilot plant for bioremediation of mercury-containing industrial wastewater

I Wagner-Döbler - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2003 - Springer
Mercury is an extremely toxic pollutant that is currently being emitted mainly by low level
industrial sources. It is distributed globally through the atmosphere, from where it …

Culturable heavy metal-resistant and plant growth promoting bacteria in V-Ti magnetite mine tailing soil from Panzhihua, China

X Yu, Y Li, C Zhang, H Liu, J Liu, W Zheng, X Kang… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
To provide a basis for using indigenous bacteria for bioremediation of heavy metal
contaminated soil, the heavy metal resistance and plant growth-promoting activity of 136 …

Recent developments for remediating acidic mine waters using sulfidogenic bacteria

I Nancucheo, JAP Bitencourt, PK Sahoo… - BioMed Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Acidic mine drainage (AMD) is regarded as a pollutant and considered as potential source
of valuable metals. With diminishing metal resources and ever‐increasing demand on …

Screening and selection of indigenous metal tolerant fungal isolates for heavy metal removal

K Gururajan, PD Belur - Environmental Technology & Innovation, 2018 - Elsevier
Heavy metal removal efficiency of indigenously present metal tolerant fungal isolates
obtained from a scrap dumpsite was assessed in this study. Four fungal isolates were …

Bioremediation of metalliferous wastes and products using inactivated microbial biomass

KM Paknikar, AV Pethkar, PR Puranik - 2003 - nopr.niscpr.res.in
In a developing country like India,. the rush for rapid industrial development coupled with
lack of awareness about metal toxicity has become a serious concern to environmentalists …

Geomycology

GM Gadd - Fungal applications in sustainable environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Geomycology can be simply defined as 'the scientific study of the roles of fungi in processes
of fundamental importance to geology'. As such it can be considered as a sub-discipline of …

Methyl t-butyl ether-degrading bacteria for bioremediation and biocontrol purposes

G d'Errico, V Aloj, V Ventorino, A Bottiglieri, E Comite… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A total of fifteen potential methyl t-butyl ether (MtBE)-degrading bacterial strains were
isolated from contaminated soil. They have been identified as belonging to the genera …