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Pot and field studies on bioremediation of p-nitrophenol contaminated soil using Arthrobacter protophormiae RKJ100.

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Title Pot and field studies on bioremediation of p-nitrophenol contaminated soil using Arthrobacter protophormiae RKJ100.
 
Creator Labana, S
Pandey, Gunjan
Paul, Debarati
Sharma, Narinder K
Basu, A
Jain, R K
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description Biodegradation of p-nitrophenol (PNP), a priority pollutant, was studied as a model system for bioremediation of sites contaminated with nitroaromatic/organic compounds. Bioremediation of PNP-containing soil was first carried out in pots using immobilized and free cells of Arthrobacter protophormiae RKJ100 in order to ascertain the role of a suitable carrier material. Results showed that stability of the introduced strain was enhanced upon immobilization and that the rate of PNP depletion decreased with increasing depth of soil. Small-scale field studies (in one square meter plots) were then conducted in which PNP-contaminated soil from an agricultural field was bioaugmented with strain RKJ100 under natural environmental conditions. PNP was totally depleted in 5 days by immobilized cells, whereas free cells were able to deplete 75% of PNP in the same time period. The fate of the released strain as monitored by plate counts, hybridization studies, and real-time polymerase chain reaction revealed fairly stable population of the cells upon immobilization on corncob powder throughout the period of study.
 
Publisher ACS Publications
 
Date 2005-05-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://crdd.osdd.net/open/987/1/jain2005.1.pdf
Labana, S and Pandey, Gunjan and Paul, Debarati and Sharma, Narinder K and Basu, A and Jain, R K (2005) Pot and field studies on bioremediation of p-nitrophenol contaminated soil using Arthrobacter protophormiae RKJ100. Environmental science & technology, 39 (9). pp. 3330-7. ISSN 0013-936X
 
Relation http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es0489801
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/987/