Organic pollutants in sediments are a worldwide problem because sediments act as sinks
for hydrophobic, recalcitrant and hazardous compounds. Depending on biogeochemical …

For decades, reclamation of pesticide contaminated sites has been a challenging avenue.
Due to increasing agricultural demand, the application of synthetic pesticides could not be …

Nucleotide sequence analysis, and more recently whole genome analysis, shows that
bacterial evolution has often proceeded by horizontal gene flow between different species …

Microorganisms in the environment can often adapt to use xenobiotic chemicals as novel
growth and energy substrates. Specialized enzyme systems and metabolic pathways for the …

This review is a survey of bacterial dehalogenases that catalyze the cleavage of halogen
substituents from haloaromatics, haloalkanes, haloalcohols, and haloalkanoic acids …

Despite its long‐term use in bioremediation, bioaugmentation of contaminated sites with
microbial cells continues to be a source of controversy within environmental microbiology …

Retrospective studies clearly indicate that mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play a major role
in the in situ spread and even de novo construction of catabolic pathways in bacteria …

Pseudomonas comprises a genus of species capable of utilizing a wide range of organic
and inorganic compounds and of living under diverse environmental conditions …

Conjugational transfer of the TOL plasmid (pWWO) was analyzed in a flow chamber biofilm
community engaged in benzyl alcohol degradation. The community consisted of three …

Biofilms affect the lives of all of us, growing as they do for example on our teeth (as plaque),
on catheters and medical implants in our bodies, on our boats and ships, in food processing …