supported by the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and grants from EC Project “Unraveling and exploiting Mediterranean Sea microbial diversity and ecology for Xenobiotics' and pollutants' clean up” (No. ULIXES-FP7KBBE-2010-3.5-03)
In order to better understand the effects of biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes on a marine microbial community, three different mesocosm experiments were planned. Natural seawater(10.000 L) was artificial...
supported by the Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment (No.2010ZX07319-001-03);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51221892)
The performance of a biofilter relies on the activity of microorganisms during the gas contaminant treatment process. In this study, SO2 was treated using a laboratory-scale biofilter packed with polyurethane foam cu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31100365, 31170465,40971034);the International S&T Cooperation Program of China (No.2011DFA32520);the Science and Technology Projects in Gansu Province (No.1011FKCA114,1010RJZA009)
The nature of microbial communities and their relation to enzyme activities in desert soils is a neglected area of investigation. To address this, the bacterial diversity and distribution and soil physico-chemical fac...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2008BADC4B16,2008BADC4B18,2008AA062401)
A lab-scale continuously-stirred tank reactor (CSTR), used for anaerobic co-digestion of fruit and vegetable waste (FVW) and food waste (FW) at different mixture ratios, was operated for 178 days at the organic ...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41020114001, 50921064);the Ministry of Sciences and Technology (No. 2009AA06Z402,2008ZX07209-006-04);the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams of"Ecosystem Processes and Services"
The responses of activities, abundances and community structures of soil denitrifiers to mercury (Hg) stress were investigated through a short-term incubation experiment. Four soil treatments with different concentr...
supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No. KSCX2-YW-Z-1020,KZCX2-YW-JC401);the Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 40871129)
Soil samples were collected from three plots under different land utilization patterns including degradation, farming, and restoration. The abundances of methanotrophs were quantified using real-time polymerase chain ...
supported by the State Key Fun- damental Research and Development Program (No. 2008CB418000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40671068);the Special Program for Lake Taihu Water Pollution Governing of Jiangsu Province (No. BK2007748)
In order to monitor the changes of Microcystis along with temporal and spatial variations, seasonal variation of Microcystis in Lake Taihu was investigated by 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer denaturing gradie...
supported by the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program(863)of China(No.2007AA06Z329);the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province(No.2007C23036);the Internation-al Cooperation Project in Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province(No.2008C14038);the National Science Foundation of Zhejiang Provience,China(No.19808)
To investigate the influence of bensulfuron-methyl(BSM)on culturable microbial quantities and unculturable microbial community structures,conventional and molecular biological methods were employed in five BSM treated...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30490232,30570240);the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(No.2002CB412308).
To explore the relationships between community composition and the environment in a reservoir ecosystem, plankton communities from the Three Gorges Reservoir Region were studied by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrop...
The effects of Cd^2+ and Cu^2+ at 300 mg/L on anaerobic microbial communities that degrade 2-cholorophenol (2-CP) were examined. Based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of 16S rDNA, bacterial community dive...