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Title	Microbiology of nutrient regeneration: Part I - phosphate regeneration

Creator	Rajendran, A. Venugopalan, V. K.

Description	33-35 Short-term experiments to investigate the process of decomposition of plankton and regeneration of nutrients, particularly phosphorus, showed that bacterial population played only an indirect role in the regeneration of phosphate in the aquatic system. During the first 2 days bacterial utilization of phosphate was more. On the 3rd day, with the proliferation of ciliates, the regeneration commenced and there was a steady increase in the inorganic as well as total phosphorus content and the phosphorus concentration increased twice as much in 10 days as that found initially. Hence the role of the ciliates in the nutrient regeneration should be emphasized in aquatic environments, unlike in terrestrial environments. Autolysis was observed during the first 2 days, but its contribution to the regeneration was very low. The stoichiometric relationship between the oxygen consumption and the release of phosphorus was not apparent in the early stages of the decomposition process.

Date	2017-01-03T04:41:15Z 2017-01-03T04:41:15Z 1974-06

Type	Article

Identifier	0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print) http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/39518

Language	en_US

Rights	CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India

Publisher	NISCAIR-CSIR, India

Source	IJMS Vol.03(1) [June 1974]

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