Exploring long-term retention and reactivation of micropollutant biodegradation capacity.

ABSTRACT: The factors limiting micropollutant biodegradation in the environment and how to stimulate this process have often been investigated. However, little information is available on the capacity of microbial communities to retain micropollutant biodegradation capacity in the absence of micropollutants or to reactivate micropollutant biodegradation in systems with fluctuating micropollutant concentrations. This study investigated how a period of 2 months without the addition of micropollutants and other organic carbon affected micropollutant biodegradation by a micropollutant-degrading microbial community. Stimulation of micropollutant biodegradation was performed by adding different types of dissolved organic carbon (DOC)-extracted from natural sources and acetate-increasing 10 × the micropoll

SUBMITTER: Branco RHR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11296967 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature