Bioremediation agent

Donnelly, P.K. and Fletcher, J.S., Potential use of mycorrhizal fungi as bioremediation agents, in Bioremediation Through Rhizosphere Technology, Anderson, T.A. and Coats, J.R., Eds., American Chemical Society, Washington, 1994. 

Similarly, the selective herbicides, bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) and ioxynil (3,5-diiodo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) are degraded by soil bacteria to their corresponding amide products 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzamide (BrAM) and 3,5-diiodo-4-hydroxybenzamide (IAM) but are not further degraded to the corresponding acids. The identification of amidases or nitrilases able to effect these transformations, in a soil bacterium, would be of value as a bioremediation agent [48],... 

Streptomyces albogriseolus as a Potential Bioremediation Agent for Sulfosulfuron... 

The presentation of proteins and polypeptides on the cell surface is a technology that is useful for apphcations ranging from the screening of antibody fragments to the creation of whole cell bioremediation agents [242]. Though these approaches are rather innovative, they are limited by the fact that the proteins and peptides displayed on the cell surface are composed of just the canonical amino acids. Therefore, some efforts have been made to extend the chemical fimctionahties available on the cell surface [235,243,244]. 

Swannell RPJ, Croft BC, Grant AL, Lee K (1995) Evaluation of bioremediation agents in beach microcosms. Spill Sci Technol Bull 2 151-159... 

Bioremediation may also be an appropriate tool for dealing with chemical agents such as the mustards and organophosphate neurotoxins (66), but httie work on actual bioremediation has been pubUshed. 

There has been considerable interest in the use of plants for bioremediation and this merits a rather extensive discussion. Plants can play an important role in bioremediation for several reasons (1) they can transport contaminants from the soil, (2) they can metabolize the contaminants after uptake, or (3) they can produce exudes that support microbial activity for degradation of the contaminants. In addition, bacteria can produce metabolites that counter the effect of toxins produced by fungi, and serve as biocontrol agents that diminish the need for the application of agrochemicals. Plant exudates play an important role in supporting the growth and activity of bacteria that carry out the degradation of contaminants in the rhizosphere and rhizoplane (the external surface of roots... 

Immobilized cells have been extensively used for the production of useful and biologically important chemicals [42, 43], for the treatment of wastewaters [44 -6], and for bioremediation of soil contaminated with numerous toxic chemicals. Immobilization not only simplifies separation and recovery of the immobilized bacteria and the binding agent, but it also makes the application reusable, which... 

Uremel is a granular biological sorbent and bioremediation accelerator composed of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, trace elements, wetting agent, water, and air. It is apphed to... 

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