Differential degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures by indigenous microbial assemblages in soil
Letters in Applied Microbiology2015Vol. 61(2), pp. 199–207
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Abstract
Contaminated sites generally contain complex mixtures of pollutants. Development of effective bioremediation strategies for contaminated soils requires knowledge of the response of soil microbial communities to such mixtures. This study provides information on the degradation of different mixtures of three priority pollutants in soil with a history of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination and examines the response of soil bacterial and fungal communities to the presence of these pollutants as sole contaminants or as part of a mixture. This is one of few studies to-date to compare the effects of single compounds and pollutant mixtures on more than one soil microbial community.
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