Petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants are recalcitrant compounds and are classified as priority
pollutants. Cleaning up of these pollutants from environment is a real world problem …

Interest in the biodegradation mechanisms and environmental fate of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) is prompted by their ubiquitous distribution and their potentially …

" This thoroughly revised educational resource presents the biological principles that
underlie modern microbiological treatment technologies. Written by two of the field's …

For microbiology and environmental microbiology courses, this leading textbook builds on
the academic success of the previous edition by including a comprehensive and up-to-date …

The β-ketoadipate pathway is a chromosomally encoded convergent pathway for aromatic
compound degradation that is widely distributed in soil bacteria and fungi. One branch …

This review deals with the prospective, experimental documentation of horizontal gene
transfer (HGT) and its role in real-time, local adaptation. We have focused on plasmids and …

Conventional agriculture still relies on the general use of agrochemicals (herbicides,
fungicides and insecticides) to control various pests (weeds, fungal pathogens and insects) …

The extensive use of pesticide causes imbalance in properties of soil, water and air
environments due to having problem of natural degradation. Such chemicals create diverse …

While strides are being made in the research and development of environmentally
acceptable and more sustainable alternative fuels—including efforts to reduce emissions of …

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