Tag: Microbial Remediation

By Avishek Majumder on December 9, 2018 No Comments

With the increasing pace of development in the agriculture and manufacturing industries, there is a release of a large amount of biomass waste into the environment.

 
By Avishek Majumder on November 17, 2018 3 Comments

Microbial Fuel Cells or Bio-Electrochemical Systems (BES) combine biological catalytic redox activity with abiotic electrochemical reactions and physics.

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Bioremediation helps cleaning up polluted environments, including soils, groundwater, and marine environments. Such systems can include bacteria, fungi, algae and plant species. They are capable of metabolizing, immobilizing or absorbing toxic compounds from their environment.

 
By Priya Chetty on April 5, 2018 No Comments

It is possible by the virtue of harvesting of energy from by-products of bioremediation processes. The harvesting of probable waste products like various gases and growth mediums makes this method eco-friendly and cost-effective.

 
By Chandrika Kapagunta on December 25, 2017 1 Comment

Phytoremediation is a method which involves growing plants in a contaminated matrix to remove environmental contaminants.It is the direct use of living green plants for the removal and degradation of contaminants in the soil as well as water bodies (Hassani et al. 2014).

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By Chandrika Kapagunta on December 17, 2017 No Comments

Gene ontology analysis can assist in phytoremediation studies to mitigate dangerous pollutants.

 
By Chandrika Kapagunta on December 13, 2017 No Comments

Under gene ontology, concepts and classes are used to define a gene function along with the relationships existing between these concepts.

 
By Chandrika Kapagunta on November 7, 2017 No Comments

Phytoremediation processes using plants to eradicate heavy metals provide efficient and ecologically sound approaches to sequestration.  This article establishes several merA gene candidates for mercury phytoremediation purpose.

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